BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping called for advances CPC relations with foreign political parties for global good.
So far, the CPC has maintained regular contact with more than 600 political parties and political organizations from over 160 countries and regions around the world.
Political parties play an important role “in the progress of human civilization,” Xi has said this at the opening of the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting held in Beijing. It was the first-ever gathering of political parties worldwide, and Xi stressed there that the CPC is ready to “make more friends across the world.” To facilitate state-to-state relations by way of enhancing intra-party friendships, Xi has in recent years engaged in various forms of interaction with leaders of foreign political parties. In 2017, Xi invited General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong for tea at the Great Hall of the People, where they discussed the similarities of the Chinese and Vietnamese cultures and exchanged ideas to enhance the traditional friendship between the two peoples.
In September 2019, when China was celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Xi conferred the Friendship Medal on Raul Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, lauding his contribution to China’s development. The mechanisms for dialogue between the CPC and other political parties have been constantly improving. Occasions such as the China-Arab States Political Parties Dialogue Extraordinary Meeting and the UK-China Leadership Forum have added mutual trust, resilience and vitality to the CPC’s relationships with foreign political parties.
“The landscape of the CPC’s international work is developing toward one that is more comprehensive and wide-ranging, running via multiple channels at a deeper level, with an expanding circle of friends,” Song Tao, minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said in an interview. – Agencies
