Chinese Embassy in Ukraine marks 67th anniversary of founding of PRC

The Chinese Embassy in Ukraine hosted a ceremonial reception on Friday to mark the 67th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The event was attended by Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Gennady Zubko, First Vice Speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Iryna Gerashchenko, and Ukrainian government and parliament representatives, diplomats and business representatives.

While addressing the ceremony, Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Du Wei spoke highly of the development of the relations between China and Ukraine, saying that the countries have a potential to boost their cooperation in various fields.

"The Sino-Ukrainian cooperation has broad prospects for development in the aerospace, scientific-technical and economic fields," Du said.

For his part, Zubko said that China and Ukraine have much in common as their people are hard-working, well educated and patriotic and the two countries have good prospects for a new heightened level of cooperation.

"We must build a common strategy that would give the quantitative results," Zubko said.

Meanwhile, Gerashchenko applauded the achievements China has made in its successful development policy, saying that Ukraine is willing to learn from China's experience and deepen the bilateral dialogue between the two countries.

"The liberalization of the visa regime and optimization of cooperation under the Silk Road initiative are our main objectives," she said.

The People's Republic of China was founded on Oct. 1, 1949. Endit