China understands African countries' anxiety about elimination of textile quota, premier
6/11/2006 16:24
China understands the anxiety of African countries including Mauritius
about their textile trade after the elimination of textile quota globally, and
has been working persistently for balanced development of global textile
trade.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made the remark in Beijing Sunday when
meeting with Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, who came here for the
Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held on Nov. 4-5.
The
textile agreements China reached with the European Union and the United States
last year, had, to a large extent, taken into account the interests of African
countries in the European and American markets, Wen said.
China will continue
to provide technological and managerial training in textile cooperation with
African countries, so as to fulfill mutual benefit and common development, he
said.
In recent years, the China-Mauritius relations have achieved remarkable
progress with frequent high-level exchanges, fruitful economic and trade
cooperation and close coordination in such fields as the United Nations reform
and other important international problems, he said.
The two countries should
enhance cooperation in infrastructure construction and tourism, he
said.
Mauritius appreciated the long-time assistance China has offered, as
well as China's understanding of and support for textile trade and other issues
that Mauritius has great interest in, Navin said.
He said Mauritius wishes to
enhance cooperation with China in economy, trade, aviation, ocean shipping and
tourism,
China and Mauritius established diplomatic relations on April 15,
1972.
Mauritius is one of China's outbound travel destinations. Bilateral
trade reached US$186 million in 2005.
Xinhua News
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