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China-Hungary relations are at their best after years of all-round development, Liu Qibao told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday.
Liu, head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said China attaches great importance to Sino-Hungarian relations.
He noted that China is willing to work with Hungary to improve cooperation in economy and trade, cultural and people-to-people exchanges and other areas within the Belt and Road Initiative and 16+1 framework.
The Belt and Road Initiative, proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient Silk Road and maritime trading routes, bringing mutually beneficial economic outcomes for every nation it reaches.
The 16+1 framework is a cooperation platform created in April 2012 by China and 16 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries including Hungary.
During the meeting, Liu introduced the new ideas and new strategies of national governance put forward by the CPC Central Committee with Xi as the core since the 18th CPC National Congress.
He said the CPC is willing to deepen communication with Hungary's ruling Fidesz Party on ideas of state and party governance in order to promote the further development of Sino-Hungarian relations.
Orban, who is also head of the Fidesz Party, said the Hungarian government and his party attach great importance to relations with China.
He said Hungary will remain open and actively participate in the Belt and Road Initiative and the 16+1 framework, constantly enriching the content of Sino-Hungarian ties.
Orban said he was looking forward to his trip to Beijing in May for an international forum on the Belt and Road Initiative and for a visit to China.
At the invitation of the Fidesz Party, Liu paid a three-day visit to Hungary. During the visit, Liualso attended a ceremony for the launch of the Hungarian-language edition of the book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China."
Liu also attended a ceremony for the launch of the China-CEE Institute and opened the Chinese Film Festival in Budapest.
Hungarian edition of book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" launched
BUDAPEST, April 24 (Xinhua) -- The Hungarian language edition of the book "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" was released here Monday at the National Bank of Hungary (MNB), receiving warm applause from the Central and Eastern European country.
Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Marta Matrai, deputy speaker of the Hungarian Parliament, attended the book-releasing ceremony.
Liu introduced the rich connotation of the book from the perspective of party governance, state governance and global governance.
He pointed out that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with General Secretary Xi Jinping as the core, put forward a series of new ideas and new strategies based on China's contemporary national conditions and development practice, which profoundly answered the major theoretical and practical questions in party and state governance in the new era.
Liu said that President Xi's book is the main embodiment of the series of new theories, ideas and strategies. The publication of the Hungarian version of the book will open a new window for the Hungarian people to observe and perceive China, he added.
It will also help them to better know and understand China's ideas and road of development as well as China's domestic and foreign policies, said Liu.
"China is the biggest, most important power in Asia, but it looks at the global problems with a responsible attitude," said Marta Matrai. "Many people try to find the secret of the Chinese miracle, and this book might help them get the answer," she added.
"The book of the Chinese president is a smart and wise one, which bears the messages of a 5,000 year-old culture," the governor of the Hungarian central bank Gyorgy Matolcsy said.
"One of the most important messages of this book is that behind every important economic result, there is a well functioning and steady state," Matolcsy noted, stressing that the "renewal of the China dream was a condition for a global renewal."
The book contains 79 chapters of speeches, talks, interviews, notes and letters that Xi made or wrote between November 2012 and June 2014.
The Hungarian version is the 19th foreign language into which the book has been translated. The book has been distributed in over 6.2 million copies worldwide.
source:XINHUA
