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China is ready to join Spain in making new efforts to boost bilateral ties in the new century, said Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
Li made the remark in Beijing Monday at a meeting with a delegation of the Spanish Communist Party led by its general secretary, Francisco Frutos.
Since China and Spain forged diplomatic ties 30 years ago, Li said, bilateral relations had progressed smoothly with frequent high-level contacts and overall growth of friendly bilateral ties in such fields as politics, economics and culture.
He voiced China's satisfaction with the progress.
Li attributed the sound growth of Sino-Spanish ties to the attention to relations with China paid by all major Spanish political powers including the Spanish Communist Party.
The CPC would further enhance its ties with all Spanish political parties under the principles of independence, full equality, mutual respect and non-interference in each other's internal affairs, so as to make new contributions to the sound development of state-to-state relations, as well as world peace and development and human progress, noted Li.
Frutos said members of the delegation appreciate China's tremendous achievements from Beijing's changes, and expressed his admiration for China's historical progress under the CPC's leadership and its increasing status and role in world affairs.
He said the friendly contacts between the Spanish Communist Party and the CPC were an important component part of bilateral friendship and cooperation. The Spanish Communist Party would make joint efforts with the Chinese side to boost the overall development of bilateral ties and relations between the whole of Europe and China.
(Xinhua News Agency January 7, 2003)
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