On April 19, at the invitation of H.E.Mme.Vandy BOUTHASAVONG, Ambassador of the Laos to China, Mr.Wu Tao, President of the China-Laos Friendship (CLFA) Association and CPAFFC Vice President Lin Yi attended the activities in celebration of the Songkran Festival and the 57th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Laos-China Diplomatic Ties hosted by the Embassy.
President Wu Tao thanked Ambassador Vandy’s warm invitation and gave the best wishes to the Lao friends for the Songkran Festival. Wu Tao said that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s first foreign visit after the 19th National Congress of CPC included the Laos, which showed the great importance attached to strengthening the good neighborhood and friendship and promoting the strategic cooperation between the two countries. The CLFA is willing to join the hands with the comrades from Laos to implement the important consensus of the leaders between the two parties and countries and deepen the people-to-people traditional friendship.
Vice President Lin Yi said that CPAFFC and CLFA valued the friendly cooperative relations with the Embassy of the Laos in China and will make continuous efforts with the Embassy to push forward the inter-connectivity between the two peoples especially the young people.
Ambassador Vandy thanked CPAFFC and CLFA’s contributions to the development of bilateral relations. She said that the Laos and China are friendly neighbors connected by mountains and rivers and the two peoples keep friendly exchanges for generations. The exchange and cooperation in people-to-people or public diplomatic field are not only the important foundation of the bilateral ties, but the motive force to implement the Laos-China“Four Goods”spirit, namely be good neighbors, good friends, good comrades and good partners. The Lao Embassy will continue to conduct close cooperation with the Chinese side to further the development of bilateral relations as well as the relations between the two peoples.
Photographed by Zhou Xiaodan and Xu Yiyi
