President Hu meets Brown on Olympics, bilateral ties
22/8/2008 17:23
Chinese President Hu Jintao met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
in Beijing today to exchange views of the Beijing Olympic Games and explore room
for further cooperation in Games-related issues and other fields.
Hu extended
a warm welcome to Brown, who arrived in Beijing this morning to watch the Games
and attend the closing ceremony scheduled for Sunday night, and expressed thanks
for the support the British government and people have rendered for the Beijing
Games.
The Chinese president also congratulated Brown on the British
athletes' outstanding performances at the Games.
The hosting of the Summer
Olympics has offered a good opportunity to deepen the cooperation between
Beijing and London, Hu said. "China is ready to share its own experience in this
regard with Britain, and we wish the London Games in 2012 a success."
Brown
congratulated Hu on the "spectacular success" of the Beijing Olympiad. "With the
whole world watching, the Beijing Olympic Games have captured the imagination of
the whole global community," he said, also speaking highly of Chinese athletes'
outstanding performances.
Beijing has "set a new standard" that London will
"seek to follow", said Brown. Britain is willing to refer to China's successful
experience in hosting the Games as well as in sports where China enjoys
advantage, in an effort to host a high-level sports rally in London in
2012.
Sino-British relations have maintained a good momentum of development
and deserve to be cherished by both sides, Hu said. "It is hoped the two
countries work together to intensify reciprocal cooperation and promote the
sound and stable development of their all-round strategic partnership."
The
president suggested that two countries maintain close communication and
coordination on major international issues through multilateral and bilateral
channels and push for the proper settlements of focal issues.
In addition,
China and Britain should intensify their cooperation to moving ahead the
reopening of Doha round of World Trade Organization talks, and promote the
steady development of the world economy, said Hu.
The Chinese president also
called for new areas and new means of cooperation to cope with climate change,
bolster energy security, and better protect the Earth, a common home for all the
world's people.
Brown said Britain hopes to enhance cooperation with China to
boost science and technology, tackle climate change, utilize nuclear energy and
renewable energies, help African countries accomplish the United Nations'
millennium goals, push forward world trade talks, build an open and stable
global trade system, and forge ahead the reform of international
mechanism.
During the meeting Hu thanked Brown for his gesture of support for
the Beijing Games by greeting the Beijing Olympic flame at his residence at No.
10 Downing Street when it was relayed to London in April.
Hu also voiced
gratitude for Britain's valuable assistance and support to China after an
8.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Wenchuan County in the southwestern Sichuan
Province on May 12.
Xinhua
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