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Hungarian Foreign Minister visits China and will attend the Third China-Central and Eastern Europe C

From： 安徽欧侨实业有限公司 Date：2023-05-16 16:56:53 Hits：292 Belong to：Window of Hungary

　　On May 15th, Péter Szijjártó, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations, visited China. Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Central Committee, and Qin Gang, State Councilor and Foreign Minister, met with this old friend in Beijing respectively.

　Wang Yi appreciated Hungary's friendly policy towards China, saying that it is in the interests of the Hungarian state and people, the common interests of China and Europe, and the development trend of the times.The development and growth of China is the growth of peaceful forces and the enhancement of global stability factors.Hungary has always viewed China's development objectively and kindly. The two sides have respected, trusted, understood and supported each other, pushing bilateral relations into the best period in history.

When meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister, Qin Gang also said that China and Hungary are good friends and partners that can stand the test.In recent years, under the joint leadership of President Xi　Jinping and Premier Orban, the relationship between the two countries has entered the best period in history.China is willing to continue to plan bilateral relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, maintain high-level exchanges with Hungary, deepen strategic mutual trust, expand friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation, increase humanities exchanges, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, and jointly address various risk challenges.
West Jardot said that the Hungarian-Chinese strategic cooperative partnership has been developing in depth and achieved positive results. Hungary appreciates China's efforts to solve the Ukrainian crisis politically.　Hungarian-Chinese and European-Chinese cooperation is an opportunity rather than a risk. Hungary welcomes China to increase its investment in Hungary and is willing to further enhance the level of cooperation with China in various fields and push bilateral relations to a new level.

Szijjártó said that in recent years, Hungary-China relations have been deepened and strengthened in all directions. Hungary regards China as a strategic partner and an important development opportunity, welcomes China's investment, opposes "decoupling", is willing to continue to deepen pragmatic cooperation with China in various fields, and firmly supports China-Central and Eastern Europe cooperation and the development of EU-China relations.
It is understood that the third China-Central and Eastern European Countries Expo and International Consumer Goods Expo will be held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province from May 16th to 20th.Hungary will participate in the event as the only guest of honor. Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártówill lead a delegation to attend the opening ceremony of the Expo, which fully reflects Hungary's support for "cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries" and its emphasis on bilateral relations.
Sino-Hungarian friendship goes back to ancient times. In recent years, with frequent high-level exchanges, strong political mutual trust, high-level development of bilateral relations and rapid growth of bilateral trade. According to statistics, in 2020, under the influence of the epidemic, the bilateral trade in goods between China and Hungary rose instead of falling, reaching a total of 11.69 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 14.4%;In 2021, the total bilateral trade in goods between China and Hungary continued to grow rapidly to US$ 15.71 billion, a year-on-year increase of 34.5%;In 2022, due to the slowdown of Hungary's domestic economic growth and other factors, the total bilateral trade between China and Hungary was US$ 15.522 billion, up 1.9% year-on-year. In 2022, China's export scale was 23.965 trillion yuan, of which China's export to Hungary was 69.822-billion-yuan, accounting for 0.29% of China's total export scale. Hungary is China's third largest trading partner in Central and Eastern Europe, and China is also Hungary's largest trading partner outside the EU. It is believed that Foreign Minister West Jardot's current visit to China will further promote the joint construction of "the belt and road initiative" and China-Central and Eastern European countries' cooperation, and push China-Hungary relations to a higher level.
Information and picture source: Chinese Mission to the European Union.

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