TIRANA, Nov. 19 – Albania is scheduled will take part at the fourth leaders’ meeting of China and Central and Eastern European countries to be held in east China’s Suzhou city from Nov. 24 to 25, the first time China will host the annual meeting.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and the leaders from the 16 CEE countries will attend the meeting in Suzhou, and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet the 16 countries’ leaders in Beijing, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wang Chao said.
The leaders’ meeting is the most important schedule under the framework of China-CEE cooperation this year, Wang said, noting it will lay a stronger foundation for future development.
The meeting in China this year will be meaningful to the sustained, balanced and in-depth relationship between China and Europe, Wang said.
Li will also attend a “16+1” round table meeting and an economic and trade forum.
The 16+1 meeting mechanism, launched in 2012, has helped to deepen traditional friendship, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation and promote China-Europe relations, Wang said.
China said it hopes to make the meeting a new milestone in the development of China-CEE cooperation.
The meeting will propose new measures and expand new fields for China-CEE cooperation, covering inter-connectivity, investment and trade, finance, agriculture, people-to-people exchanges and so forth.
The leaders will also plan the new vision of development in the next five years, aiming to strengthen top-level design for the cooperation.
About 1,000 China and CEE business leaders will participate in the forum.
