On March 17th, Madam Lin Yi, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with a 6-member-delegation headed by Mr. Abdeljebar El-Qastalani,Vice President of Souss-Massa Region of Morocco.
Vice President Lin expressed her pleasure to meet with Mr. Abdeljebar El-Qastalani again. In October last year, at the invitation of the CPAFFC, Mr.Qastalani led a local government delegation from Morocco to attend the 2016 China International Friendship Cities Conference in Chongqing. Today, the visit of Mr.Qastalani to China again had proved that the Morocco side attached great importance to the development of local government exchanges between both countries. The CPAFFC is willing to maintain communication and coordination with the Souss-Massa Region to promote the exchanges and cooperation in the fields of local governments, enterprises and scholars as well as the development of people-to-people friendship relations between China and Morocco.
Mr. Qastalani thanked Madam Lin’s meeting with the delegation and spoke highly of the CPAFFC’s role in promoting friendly exchanges between the people of China and other countries including Morocco. He said the friendly relations between China and Morocco had a long history. Morocco was located at the junction of Europe and Africa. It is willing to become China’s gate to enter Africa. Since the visit of the King of Morocco to China last year, the bilateral cooperation had developed rapidly in political, economic and other fields. In July this year, the Souss-Massa Region would organize an event to introduce investment opportunities in Morocco. Chinese local governments and enterprises are welcomed to participate in the event to advance the bilateral pragmatic cooperation between the two sides.
