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French president visits Shanghai
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-10-12 01:13 France hopes to participate
fully in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, said the visiting French President
Jacques Chirac here Monday evening.
Chirac made the remarks in a meeting with Chen Liangyu, secretary of the
Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Han
Zheng, mayor of Shanghai.
Chirac said great changes had taken place in Shanghai since his visit seven
years ago, noting that Shanghai has indubitable capacity to hold the World Expo,
which will bring better development.
Chirac said many French enterprises have set up sound cooperative ties with
their counterparts in Shanghai, and are strengthening cooperation in such fields
as transport, sewage water treatment, oil and chemical industry.
Chen Liangyu, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central
Committee, briefed guests on Shanghai's economic and social development in
recent years and the preparation work of the World Expo, hoping that the French
side would grasp the opportunity of the Expo to lift the economic and trade
cooperation between the two countries into a new high.
Chirac arrived here Monday morning from Beijing to continue his state visit
to China.
During his stay in Shanghai, Chirac made an address at the prestigious
Tongji University, noting that taking humanism as the major topic of their
dialogue, the cooperative relations between France and China will serve the
world in the future.
Before the speech, Chirac attended a foundation-laying ceremony for the
China-France Center for Science, Technology and Innovation in the university.
Chirac also attended the unveil of the Pasteur Institute of Shanghai,
which was established for promoting cooperation between France and China in the
field of preventing and treating new and infectious disease.
After the visit to the Shanghai Museum, Chirac met French sponsors for the
French Culture Year in China earlier this evening.
Shanghai is the third Chinese city he has visited following Chengdu and
Beijing during his China tour. Chirac is scheduled to leave here for Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region on Tuesday.
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