Phnom Penh (FN), Sep. 30 – Chinese ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian highlighted significant high-level exchanges between Cambodian and Chinese top leaders, on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of Cambodia-China diplomatic relations on 28 September 2023.
“2023 has been a very busy year for high-level exchanges between China and Cambodia. President Xi Jinping has met with His Majesty the King twice this year, in Beijing and in Hangzhou. Samdech Techo Hun Sen's visit to China in Februay fulfilled the promise with president Xi Jinping three years before in the very early days of the COVID19 outbreak. Carrying forward such profound friendship, Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet embarked on his first official visit overseas to China in mid September, meeting with president Xi Jinping and premier Li Qiang and witnessed the signing of a new 5-year Action Plan of Building a China-Cambodia Community with a Shared Future and a dozen cooperation agreements,” the ambassador underlined.
“Our leaders have reached broad consensus on promoting diamond cooperation framework highlighting "Industrial and Technological Corridor" and "Fish and Rice Corridor". China and Cambodia have ushered in a new era of building a high-quality, high-level and high-standard China-Cambodia Community with a Shared Future,” Wang Wentian added.
The ambassador continued, “in the coming month, Samdech Thipadei Hun Manet will travel to China once again to attend the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, and holding bilateral meetings with Chinese leaders. Such is the extraordinary intensity of China-Cambodia high-level engagements.”
“China-Cambodia ironclad friendship is based on solid foundation. Friendly exchanges between our two countries and peoples go way back to the dawn of times, extending far beyond 65 years of diplomatic ties. In recent centuries, many Chinese settle here and build lives for themselves in this inclusive land of promise, side by side with Khmer brothers and sisters.”
On the occasion, ambassador Wang also reiterated that in 1967, His Majesty the late King Father and Her Majesty Queen Mother gifted the Embassy two mango trees, which have withstood the test of time over the course of half a century, now thriving and flourishing ever more vigorously in the Embassy's “China-Cambodia Friendship Garden", for which Her Majesty the Queen Mother cut the ribbon.
“Embroidering our friendship with even more such gleeful vignettes this year, the Embassy had further great honour of receiving two more unique gift of trees, one Daeum Boprek from Her Majesty the Queen Mother, and the other Millingtonia hortensis L.f. tree from Samdech Techo Hun Sen. Together with a Jambolan Plum tree from Samdech Tea Banh, they shape the skyline of the Embassy, symbolizing and witnessing the ever-lasting China-Cambodia special bond of friendship. We have every reason to be confident that, under the strategic guidance of our leaders, our bilateral relations will usher in even greater progress, bringing more benefits to our two countries and two peoples, with promise of greater contribution to peace, stability and prosperity for the region and the world at large.”
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