On 15th May, President Li Xiaolin of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries(CPAFFC) met with Special Representative of the Danish Prime Minister, Danish Minister for Gender Equality and Nordic Cooperation Karen Ellemann who visited China to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, and the accompanying Danish Ambassador to China, Mr A. Carsten Damsgaad.

President Li Xiaolin pointed out that Chinese President Xi Jinping highlighted in his keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony of the BRF that we should build the Belt and Road into a road for peace, road of prosperity, road of opening up, road of innovation, and road connecting different civilizations. As 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of China-Denmark Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, CPAFFC would like to take this opportunity to work with the Danish side and promote the China-Denmark Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to a new height.

Minister Karen Ellemann said that the Inaugural China-Denmark Regions and Cities Forum co-hosted by the CPAFFC and the Royal Danish Embassy in Beijing has achieved great success. The Danish side would like to deepen the two countries people-to-people exchanges and local government cooperation with CPAFFC under the framework of China-Denmark Joint Work Program (2017-2020).

CPAFFC’s Vice President Song Jingwu, Deputy Director General of the European and Asian Department, Mr Lv Hongwei attended the meeting.