Mme. Li Xiaolin, President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), met with Mr. B.Saidov, Uzbekistan Ambassador to China on December 15th, 2017.

President Li Xiaolin congratulated Ambassador B.Saidov on taking his new post in China and made an introduction about the 19th National Congress of Communist Party of China, the Belt and Road Initiatives, the basic functions of CPAFFC and the work developed with Uzbekistan in recent years. President Li also expressed that CPAFFC would like to make joint efforts with Uzbekistan Embassy in China and Uzbekistan friendly organizations to continuously enhance the mutual understanding and the traditional friendship between the two peoples through the cooperative programs.

Ambassador B.Saidov thanked President Li for taking her time to meet them and expressed that it is an honor to be Uzbekistan Ambassador to China. He would actively implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of states and make all-round efforts on further developing people-to-people pragmatic cooperation, humanity and culture exchanges between the two countries, so as to improve the local cooperation. Ambassador B. Saidov spoke highly of the important role CPAFFC had played in developing  people-to-people exchanges with foreign countries and the outstanding contributions President Li Xiaolin had made. Ambassador B.Saidov specially mentioned that he had studied the report delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping to the 19th National Congress and agreed with  the thought about improving living standards stressed in the report for several times. He believed that the two countries would make new contributions to the development of the regions and the world after the cooperation developed within the framework of the construction of the Belt and Road.

Mme. Hu Chunmei, Associated Counsel of the Department of European and Asian Affairs of CPAFFC, Mr. Nurkin, Counselor of the Uzbekistan Embassy in China, attended the meeting.