Beijing and Prague decide to establish strategic partnership during President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the European country.
Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Senate leader of the Czech Republic met on Tuesday to discuss bilateral ties and legislative cooperation.
China and the Czech Republic on Tuesday decided to establish strategic partnership during Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the country.
At the invitation of President Milos Zeman of the Czech Republic, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Prague to start his state visit on March 28.
Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, exchanges views with Czech President Milos Zeman at the host's private residence, the Lany chateau, west of Prague, during an informal meeting, March 28, 2016.
President Xi Jinping arrived at Prague's international airport at about 2 pm local time (8 pm in China) on Monday for an historic three-day visit.
Chinese tourists who love film are especially welcome at Gallery Spectrum in downtown Prague, which has more than 1,000 posters, many from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
As a concrete result of closer cooperation between China and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in recent years, the research center for TCM, officially opened on June 17, 2015, serves as a manifest for the expansion of areas of China-CEE pragmatic cooperation.
A senior Czech politician said President Xi Jinping's visit to his country has shown it is recognizing this European country's role in helping boost Sino-EU relationship and build a multi-polar world, which is in the interests of the Czech Republic.
When President Xi decided to visit, we found that China is also very serious in recognizing the role of the Czech Republic in the China-EU relationship framework. We are happy that President Xi not only visits the UK, France and Germany but the Czech Republic as well.
President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative is essentially a peace project, which has surpassed economic benefits and is connecting people of different countries, said Jan Kohout, an adviser to Czech President Milos Zeman on Chinese matters.
Ten years ago, when Jiri Paroubek was prime minister of the Czech Republic, he was visionary enough to fly to Beijing and held talks with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao to strengthen business relationship with China. And China's TV manufacturing company Changhong had set up a new factory then, which was part of the success he helped achieve.