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    China, Bahamas pledge to boost cooperation

    2015-01-08 08:48 Xinhua Web Editor: Gu Liping
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    Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 7, 2015. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

    Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 7, 2015. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

    Chinese President Xi Jinping and Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie pledged to boost cooperation between the two countries as they met on Wednesday at the Great Hall of the People.

    "China attaches great importance to ties with the Bahamas," Xi told the visiting prime minister, who is in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the first ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) Forum on Thursday.

    Xi proposed the two countries maintain high-level interactions, increase exchanges and boost cooperation on trade and investment, agriculture and fisheries, new energy, human resources training, tourism, education and culture.

    "The Chinese side is willing to enhance communication and coordination with the Bahamas on reform of the United Nations, climate change, reform of the international financial system and other global issues," said the president.

    Recalling his meeting with leaders of Caribbean states in June 2013, Xi said the outcomes of the meeting are being implemented and the relationship between China and Caribbean countries has improved, benefiting people from both sides.

    Xi said he appreciates the Bahamas, which holds the rotating chairmanship of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), for its contribution to the ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC Forum.

    China will work together with all CELAC members to lead China-CELAC cooperation to a new height and ensure that the China-CELAC Forum and the China-CARICOM cooperative mechanism interact with each other favorably to better serve the economic development of Caribbean countries, said the Chinese leader.

    Hailing the friendship and cooperation between the two countries over the past 17 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties, Christie said he looks forward to closer cooperation between the two countries on trade and investment. Christie also said he looks forward to more tourists from China and more businesses to build tourism-related infrastructure in the Bahamas.

    The prime minister said he hopes the two countries will increase exchanges in culture, education, sports, air transportation and maritime research.

    Christie said the China-CELAC Forum will create a better environment for cooperation between China and the Bahamas as well as between China and CARICOM.

    CARICOM welcomes China's preferential financial support and hopes that China will provide more assistance for improving human resources capabilities in Caribbean countries, especially those of youth, he said.

    As rotating chair of CARICOM, the Bahamas will make more efforts to promote China-CARICOM cooperation and China-CELAC cooperation, said the prime minister.

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