Under the strategic leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, bilateral relations have developed rapidly in recent years, setting a model for relations between China and Arab countries in the new era, a visiting senior Chinese official has said here.
Chen noted that China is willing to work with the UAE to take the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to actively implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning of experience in governance and modernization, and advance the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
Chen, who is also the secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee, said that Tianjin is ready to give full play to its advantages to strengthen cooperation with the UAE, especially Dubai, in fields such as economy, trade, investment, free trade zone and port construction, thereby contributing to the development of bilateral relations.
For his part, the UAE vice president and prime minister said that his country attaches great importance to developing relations with China and is satisfied with the sound development momentum of bilateral exchanges and cooperation in fields such as politics, economy, trade, investment, and people-to-people exchanges.
The UAE, especially Dubai, is willing to further deepen the docking of development strategies and mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields with China, so as to promote greater development of bilateral relations, added Mohammed bin Rashid, who is also ruler of Dubai.
During the visit, Chen also attended the 2024 “Invest China” Tianjin Session and facilitated the signing of several cooperation agreements, including a memorandum between the Tianjin Free Trade Zone and the UAE’s Jebel Ali Free Zone, and a cooperation agreement between Tianjin Port Group and DP World.