China-Eritrea Strategic partnership to a new level
Earlier in the day, President Isaias and his delegation met with Prime Minister Li Qiang at the Great Hall of People.
The welcoming ceremony was accompanied with 21 Gun Salute in honor of President Isaias and his delegation.
PM Qiang stated that bilateral ties between the two countries have transcended normative diplomatic ties to constitute strategic relationship and tangible cooperation.
President Isaias for his part underlined that Eritrea-China ties go back to almost 60 years and expressed profound gratitude to the CPC for extending moral and material support to the struggle of the Eritrean people for independence.
The Chinese side is willing to work with the Eritrean side to deepen the close and friendly relations between the two countries and to promote the strategic partnership between China and Eritrea to a new level.
China is willing, together with Eritrea, to make use of frameworks and platforms such as the joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and the “Concept for Peaceful Development in the Horn of Africa” to promote mutually beneficial cooperation and achieve common development.
The two sides discussed a broad range of areas for investment and development cooperation including in the sectors of manufacturing, coastal development, blue economy, digital economy, mining, education, health and human capacity development.
