President Li Xiaolin met with Mr. Adnan Kassar, Honorable President of General Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture for Arab countries and President of Fransabank Group in Beijing on September 11th. Vice President Lin Yi were present at the meeting.

President Li welcomed the Kassar brothers and their delegation to the CPAFFC and praised them for their outstanding contributions for promoting people-to-people friendly exchanges between China and Arab Countries including Lebanon. She expressed our willingness to actively cooperate with the Kassar Family and Fransabank in carrying out cultural and economic exchanges to further consolidate people-to-people friendly cooperation between China and Arab countries including Lebanon.

Adnan thanked President Li for meeting with him out of her busy schedule and briefed on his visit to China. He said, the Kassar Family highly appreciate and firmly support "the Belt and Road" initiative and will continue to strengthen their cooperation with China in all fields, and promote the China-Lebanon relations as well as China-Arab relations to a higher level.