A Chinese initiative to build a "community of common destiny" with its Latin American partners is a welcome idea, the head of a UN regional commission has said.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang returned to Beijing on Friday morning after concluding his visits to Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chile from May 18 to 26.
China will continue to deepen mutual political trust, promote balanced growth of bilateral trade, expand two-way investment deepen exchanges on education, culture, tourism and other exchanges with Spain in the new decade of their comprehensive strategic partnership, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said here Wednesday.
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long." That romantic sentence is from Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, one of the most famous poems by Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
For China, South American countries are the farthest away in geographical distance, but the Chinese like the quote "a bosom friend afar brings a distant land near" by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Bo 1,300 years ago to describe the friendship.