Havana, April 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and China are collaborating in areas of mutual interest, focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative and economic and social development, according to attendees at the Seminar on Chinese-Style Modernization today.
Mercedes Delgado Fernández, rector of the Higher School of State and Government Cadres of Cuba, also stated that “Chinese-style modernization cuts across all the areas of interest in our fruitful collaboration, through which we hold bilateral meetings with the Development Research Center of the State Council of China (DRC).”
DRC Vice Minister Zhang Laiming highlighted his organization’s intentions to strengthen cooperation with the Caribbean island.
Laiming also characterized Chinese society, highlighting its spirituality and perseverance toward development over five thousand years of history; factors he asserts have been key to achieving the Asian giant’s current achievements.
For his part, Ernesto Rodríguez Hernández, First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Communications, explained during his presentation that the objective of this cooperation is to ensure harmonious and sustainable growth, emphasizing four integral aspects.
These are: building a model socialist country, deepening reforms, governing according to the law, and strictly enforcing the Party; and they aim to promote a “profound transformation at all levels of Chinese society, based on a development model that does not sacrifice stability.”
“It is important that we move forward together on the path of socialist modernization,” declared Hua Xin, China’s ambassador to Cuba, during the closing ceremony of the seminar.
Other participants also highlighted the importance of cooperative relations between the two states in building and developing their societies.
The two republics established diplomatic relations on September 28, 1960.
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