On June 11th, President Li Xiaolin met with Orlando Smith, Premier and Minister of Finance of the British Virgin Islands.

President Li Xiaolin welcomed Smith’s revisit to China at the invitation of the CPAFFC, introduced the exchange and cooperation between Chinese and UK local governments, especially the China-UK Regional Leaders Exchange Program, built up by CPAFFC and invited the delegation of BVI to attend the forth Regional Leaders Summit,which is expected to be held in Dalian in the second half this year. 

Smith said that BVI remains committed to expanding relationship with China, particularly in the financial industry, has established friendly and cooperative relations with the Cities of Shenzhen and Tianjin, and hoped to become more deeply involved in the construction of “ Belt and Road” initiative in China.