Deepen the communication between parties and between regions and jointly construct the Belt and Road

 

Du Jiahao, Party Secretary of CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Director of Standing Committee of Hunan Provincial People's Congress led the Delegation of Communist Party Representatives between November 25 and December 1 to visit successively Laos and Vietnam. Meetings were held with the leaders of parties and regions of both countries and a high-level consensus was reached on pushing forward to establish a community of shared destiny between China and Laos and promoting a comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Vietnam to keep moving forward. During this period of time, Du Jiaohao also attended economic, trading and cultural activities including contract signing for friendship cities, business exchange between companies, agricultural cooperation and opening of direct flights for the purpose of enabling fruitful outcomes of communication and cooperation between Hunan and the local governments in Laos and Vietnams.

 

 

(Du Jiahao, Party Secretary of CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Director of Standing Committee of Hunan Provincial People's Congress, meets Bounnhang, General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos)

 

China and Laos are good neighbors, friends, comrades and partners. Friendship between the people from both countries has a long history. Hunan and Laos have been maintaining close cooperation, and Laos has set up a Consulate-General, breaking through a zero record of any consulate in Hunan Province. In recent years, mutual visits by leaders from the two countries, trading exchange and non-governmental exchange tend to become more and more frequent. During his stay in Laos, Du Jiahao respectively met Bounnhang, General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos, Phankham, member to the Central Political Bureau, Standing Secretary of Secretariat of Party Central Committee and Vice President of Laos, Sinlavong, member to the Central Political Bureau, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Vientiane, Sounthone, Director of International Department of Central Committee, and Saleumxay, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Du Jiaohao expressed a hope to strengthen the communication between the two parties, deepen cooperation in practical terms and push forward to establish a solid community of shared destiny between China and Laos. Laos expressed a hope to put in place the mutual consensus of both parties and enhance the cooperation between Laos and Hunan Province in practical terms.

 

 

(Du Jiaohao broke the ground with Lien Thikeo, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, for an agricultural research and production cooperation project base between Laos and China.)

 

Du Jiahao attended the groundbreaking ceremony of an agricultural research and production cooperation project base between Laos and China with Lien Thikeo, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, and Sengduean, Minister of Education and Sports. This base will fully take advantages of Hunan Academy of Agricultural Science in scientific research to build up a demonstrative base for modernized and mechanized crop growing and production with high and stable yield and safe ecosystem so as to help Laos to improve agricultural technology and productivity and speed up agricultural transformation. Du Jiaohao expressed at the groundbreaking ceremony that Hunan is a big agricultural province with obvious advantages in agricultural technology, talents and equipment and that Laos, with its location in the golden ecological area of rice in Southeast Asia, has abundant agricultural resources. Both countries are born to be cooperative and have a good foundation for cooperation. It is hoped that the groundbreaking of this project base should be a new starting point for further deepening of communication and cooperation and that more fruitful results will come out of it.

Currently there are 169 companies approved by economic and trading authorities in Hunan Province to make investments in Laos. There are more than 100,000 Hunan people doing business in Laos. Du Jiahao and Khemmany Pholsena, Minister of Industry and Commerce, were present at China (Hunan)-Laos the Belt and Road Forum for cooperation and signing ceremony, where relevant institutions from our province signed strategic cooperation agreement or memo of understandings with relevant parties from Laos in the aspects of talent trainings, cultural transmission, agricultural development, infrastructure construction and equipment manufacture. Du Jiahao delivered in his speech that Hunan always adheres to a spirit of opening and inclusiveness, and cooperation and mutual benefits to put into practice, under the Belt and Road, the strategic consensus of ‘pushing forward the construction of a community of shared destiny between China and Laos’ by Xi Jinping, General Secretary and Bounnhang, General Secretary, further enhancing cooperation in practical terms in various areas including trading, agriculture, infrastructure, humanity, tourism, education and medical treatment for deepening of mutual benefits and trust and increase of well-beings of people.

 

 

(Du Jiahao and Sinlavong, member to the Central Political Bureau, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Vientiane jointly signed an agreement on building up a friendly relation between cities)

 

Friendship between people prevails in a relation between nations and a spiritual relation prevails in friendship between people. During this visit, Du Jiahao and Sinlavong, member to the Central Political Bureau, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Vientiane jointly signed an agreement on building up a friendly relation between cities. Du Jiahao held a meeting with Santiphab, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Savannakhet Province and commonly witnessed an intent letter of friendship being signed by Hunan Province and Savannakhet Province, and Xiangtan City and Kaysone Phomvihane City. With the principle of equality and mutual benefit, both parties will jointly promote the friendly communication between peoples in the two locations and economic and trading exchange and hence motivate the cooperation in economy and trading, agriculture, tourism, culture, education and talent trainings.

 

 

(Du Jiahao attended the ceremony of first flight from Luang Prabang to Changsha and delivered a speech.)

 

 

 

(Du Jiahao witnesses the signing of strategic cooperative agreements or memo of understandings between Hunan Province and relevant enterprises in Vietnam.)

 

At the China (Hunan) – Vietnam Forum of Communication and Cooperation in economy and trading, relevant institutions from Hunan Province signed strategic cooperative agreements or memo of understandings with relevant sides from Vietnam. Du Jiahao said, “China is connected with Vietnam by mountains and rivers and friendship between the people from both countries has a long history. the Belt and Road provides a fundamental opportunity for deepening of cooperation between Hunan and Vietnam. Hunan is always keeping to opening and rising up and will expedite to construct a whole-new open pattern with more efforts and more solid measures.”

 

 

(All pictures above were taken by Luo Xinguo, New Hunan Client Reporter of Hunan Daily)