Visiting Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan exchanged views on Wednesday
with Hungarian Minister of Economy and Transport Koka Janos on
expanding and deepening bilateral economic and technological
cooperation.
At a meeting with Koka, Zeng hailed the smooth and fast economic
and technological cooperation between the two countries in recent
years, and said that Hungary has become an important economic and
trading partner of China in Central-Eastern Europe.
He added that China is willing to further expand the fields of
cooperation and lift the levels of cooperation with Hungary, to
promote an all-around cooperation between the two countries.
The vice premier said that the two sides should innovate on
cooperation forms, improve trade structure and seek large
cooperation projects.
The Chinese government would continue to encourage Chinese
companies to invest in Hungary, and welcome more Hungarian
companies to China, Zeng said.
Koka said that consolidating the cooperation with China is on
the top agenda of Hungary's economic cooperation with foreign
countries.
Hungary is willing to explore new channels of cooperation with
China in various fields, Koka said. He also expressed his wish that
more Chinese would invest and establish factories in Hungary.
Zeng also inspected the public construction works of Budapest in
the afternoon.
(Xinhua News Agency September 21, 2006)
