Shen Xiaoming, secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, met in Changsha with a delegation of senior cadres led by Dev Prasad Gurung, general secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Center), on the afternoon of April 22, 2024.

On April 22, Secretary Shen met with General Secretary Dev Prasad Gurung in Changsha. (Photo/Tang Jun)

Secretary Shen, on behalf of the provincial Party committee and provincial government, welcomed the guests and introduced the economic and social development of Hunan. He noted that China and Nepal are close neighbors linked by the same mountains and rivers and enjoy a long-standing friendship. In recent years, Hunan and Nepal have achieved promising cooperation results in economic and trade interactions, people-to-people exchanges, and hybrid rice cultivation and promotion. He expected both sides to further deepen collaboration and communication, implementing the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and contributing to the friendly exchanges between China and Nepal.

General Secretary Dev Prasad Gurung thanked Hunan for its warm reception. He remarked that Hunan has a long history, and through this visit, he personally experienced the achievements in Hunan's economic and social development. He will learn from Hunan's advancement experience and further strengthen mutual exchanges and cooperation in rice cultivation, agricultural technology, infrastructure, and friendship city construction, to achieve mutual benefit, win-win results, and common development.

Provincial leaders Qin Guowen and Li Jianzhong, and relevant comrades from the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn