China ready to share development opportunities with Singapore: Premier Li Qiang

Beijing, The Gulf Observer: Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday told visiting Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance of Singapore Lawrence Wong that China is willing to share development opportunities with Singapore and welcomes Singapore to continue participating in China’s reform and opening up.

Li said the countries’ leaders have upgraded bilateral ties to an all-around high-quality future-oriented partnership, adding China is ready to work with Singapore to implement the new orientation of bilateral relations to ensure renewed achievements.

Noting that this year marks the 45th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up, Li said Singapore has actively participated in the process, with its interests closely integrated with China.

It is hoped that the bilateral cooperation mechanism at the vice-premier level would get full play and high-quality cooperation in various fields would be promoted holistically, the Chinese premier said.

He also encouraged the two sides to make good use of local cooperation mechanisms, improve the level of regional interconnection, help stabilize the industrial and supply chains, and strengthen cooperation in financial services, digital economy, new energy, urban green transformation and social governance, among others.

China is willing to discuss more measures to facilitate personnel exchanges with Singapore to promote the frequent visits between the two peoples, Li added.

Hailing the close cooperation with China that bears fruitful outcomes, Wong said Singapore is willing to work with China to promote mutually beneficial cooperation on all fronts with high quality and push forward Singapore-China relations.