Prior to the arrival of China's top legislator Wu Bangguoin to Burma on
Wednesday, China’s ambassador to Burma has given an interview to the state-run
Xinhua news agency.
Wu, the chairman of the Standing
Committee of the People's Congress of China, will visit Burma from Wednesday to
Saturday.
Chinese Ambassador Li Junhua said
on Tuesday that the two countries are maintaining high level exchanges, raising
strategic trust, increasing economic and trade cooperation and launching
friendly cooperation in business sectors.
Li said that China respects and
understands Burma’s reform and opening up process, reiterating that China will
maintain a diplomatic policy of staying on good terms with its neighbor and
working in partnership.
The ambassador noted that
chairman Wu is the most senior leader to visit Burma in nearly a decade.
During the visit, he said, Wu
will meet Burmese political leaders and exchange views on areas of cooperation.
Li said there has been a steady
growth in China-Burma economic and trade cooperation in both scale and level.
For 2011, he said bilateral trade totaled US$ 6. 5 billion, up 46.3 per cent.
China's investment in Burma also
reached $20.26 billion by the end of last year, leading in Burma’s foreign
trade and foreign investment. In the first six months of this year, bilateral
trade amounted to $2.6 billion.
Li noted that for the past
several years, China has contributed heavily
to Burma’s socioeconomic development, and also bilateral relations have
been highlighted by exchanges in the culture sector, citing the tour of a
Chinese Buddha tooth relic to Burma for public display, as well as a Chinese
cultural troupe's visit. He said such exchanges have brought closer the mutual
links between the Buddhist circles, between artists and between the peoples of
the two countries.
On the occasion of Burma’s
hosting of the 27th Southeast Asian Games next year, Li said China would be
willing to help in the successful staging of the event.
Ambassador Li said the visit of
chairman Wu to Burma would enhance relations between the leaders of the two
countries on bilateral issues and also on regional hot issues.
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