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Chinese leaders make success of foreign visits
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-23 16:56

During his trip to Britain, the Chinese premier reiterated that confidence is the most valuable commodity, more important than gold or money.

Through his meetings, speeches, symposiums and interviews during his tour, Wen enhanced Europe's trust in China and conveyed China's confidence and strength to the world.

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He also gained the trust of the international community by delivering information based on facts and statistics.

His visits not only helped China and Europe reach important consensus on how to cope with the financial crisis and other global issues, but gave new momentum to bilateral trade and economic cooperation.

Chinese Vice President Xi visited Mexico, Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Malta from February 8 to 22.

In Mexico, local newspaper El Universal said Xi's stay in the country, though it lasted just 48 hours, inspired great interest in China among Mexican entrepreneurs.

Jamaica's official news agency described China as a valued friend and an important partner. It said the memorandums of understanding on economic, technological and investment cooperation between the enterprises of the two countries offered new opportunities for further bilateral cooperation.

Colombian media also paid close attention to Xi's visit and gave full coverage to his activities, especially his talks with Colombian leaders, the signing of bilateral cooperation pacts during his stay as well as the announcement that Colombia has become a favored destination for Chinese tourists.

During Xi's stay in Venezuela, he and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attended the signing ceremony for 12 agreements on bilateral cooperation in economy, trade, finance, energy and agriculture.

During his visit to Brazil, both the Chinese vice president and Brazilian leaders vowed to deepen the strategic partnership between the two countries and to explore new ways and fields for bilateral cooperation.

During his talks with Xi, acting Maltese President George Hyzler thanked China for its sincere help to his country and also congratulated China on the great achievements of its modernization drive, while noting the considerable progress made in bilateral cooperation.

Meanwhile, the leaders of China and the United States have engaged in frequent communication recently, creating fine conditions for the development of mutual ties.

On January 30, Chinese President Hu held a telephone conversation on bilateral ties with his US counterpart Barack Obama, with both sides expressing the willingness to further the relationship.

Hu said China is ready to strengthen dialogue, promote mutual trust and expand cooperation with the United States in a bid to confront various global challenges together and push forward a stable development of the China-US relationship.

He said the core interest of either country should be respected and taken into consideration by the other.

Describing China-US ties as the most important bilateral relation for either side, Obama said enhancing constructive dialogue and cooperation is in the interest of not only the two countries themselves, but the world at large.

The US side expects to engage in closer cooperation with China on major international and regional issues, he said, adding the US government is willing to join hands with China in developing a more active and constructive bilateral relationship.

The new US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, visited China from February 20 to 22.

During his talks with Clinton, Chinese President Hu said China and the United States, as major influential nations, share broad common interests and bear significant responsibilities on important issues concerning peace and development of the world.