Chinese premier meets Mongolian PM

DALIAN -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday met with Prime Minister of Mongolia Nyam-Osor Uchral in the Northeast China city of Dalian, where Uchral is attending the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions.

Li said that China has always placed China-Mongolia relations in an important position in its neighborhood diplomacy, and is willing to work with Mongolia to further consolidate political mutual trust, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, continuously expand practical cooperation in various fields, and strive to build a China-Mongolia community with a shared future featuring peaceful coexistence, mutual assistance and win-win cooperation.

Li pointed out that China is willing to deepen cooperation with Mongolia in areas such as agricultural product trade, coal and mineral resources, and people's livelihood, promote the development of new business forms like cross-border e-commerce, digital economy and artificial intelligence, and steadily advance the interconnection of infrastructure including border ports, railways and highways.

It is hoped that Mongolia will continue to create a favorable business environment and effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises in Mongolia, Li added.

Uchral said that in recent years, high-level exchanges between Mongolia and China have been continuous and practical cooperation has achieved fruitful results, adding that Mongolia firmly adheres to the one-China principle, and that issues related to Xizang, Xinjiang and Hong Kong are China's internal affairs.

Mongolia is willing to enhance the alignment of its national development strategy with China's 15th Five-Year Plan, deepen cooperation in bilateral trade, connectivity, infrastructure, energy and mineral resources, agriculture, green economy and other fields, and continuously enrich the connotation of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Mongolia and China, Uchral said.