The heads of state of China and Egypt jointly awarded the license for the expansion of the cooperation zone.

Release time:

2016-01-22 14:03

At 11:30 a.m. local time on January 21, 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi awarded the license for the China-Egypt Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone Extension Project at the Kuba Palace, the Egyptian Presidential Palace. Wang Huning, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, director of the Central Policy Research Office, and director of the Central Reform Office, Li Zhanshu, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, and director of the General Office of the Central Committee, member of the 18th CPC Central Committee, state councilor, member of the Party Group of the State Council, and director of the Central Foreign Affairs Office Yang Jiechi and other leaders attended the ceremony. Tianjin TEDA Investment Co., Ltd. Chairman Zhang Bingjun attended the ceremony.

Before the awarding ceremony, President Xi Jinping held talks with President Sisi of Egypt. The two heads of state spoke highly of the traditional friendship between China and Egypt and the results of mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, planned the development of China-Egypt relations, exchanged in-depth views on international and regional issues of common concern, and reached broad consensus. Xi Jinping pointed out that the two sides (China and Egypt) should align their respective development strategies and visions, and use the two major starting points of infrastructure construction and production capacity cooperation to build Egypt into a fulcrum country along the "Belt and Road. China is willing to participate in the construction of major projects such as the Suez Canal Corridor and the new administrative capital of Egypt. Sisi said that Egypt is committed to close cooperation with China in various fields, is willing to link its own development plan with the construction of "Belt and Road Initiative", and welcomes Chinese enterprises to increase investment in Egypt.

After the talks, the two heads of state witnessed the five-year implementation outline of the People's Republic of China and the Arab Republic of Egypt on strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, the memorandum of understanding between the government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the Arab Republic of Egypt on jointly promoting the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st century Maritime Silk Road, and the signing of a number of bilateral cooperation documents in the fields of power, infrastructure construction, economy and trade, energy, finance, aerospace, culture, culture, culture, news, science and technology, and jointly inaugurated the second phase of the china-egypt suez economic and trade cooperation zone.