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Chinese premier meets Irish president

Premier Wen Jiabao welcomed Irish enterprises to participate in China's economic development at a meeting Friday with visiting Irish President Mary McAleese.

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Premier Wen Jiabao welcomed Irish enterprises to participate in China's economic development at a meeting Friday with visiting Irish President Mary McAleese.

Wen said China was satisfied with the trend of Sino-Irish relations.

The two countries had kept close high-level contacts in recent years, said Wen, adding that mutual political trust between China and Ireland was consolidated by Ireland's understanding and support for China on the issue of Taiwan.

Bilateral trade had increased seven-fold in the past five years, together with mutual investment, and mutually beneficial cooperation continued to expand, the premier said.

Wen expressed his appreciation for the policy of the Irish government to focus on Asia and treat China as a key area in terms of Irish-Asian cooperation, noting that this showed the Irish side had grasped opportunities emerging from the booming Asian economy.

China was growing in the integration of industrialization and information technology, while Ireland boasted fairly strong advantages in high-technology industries, such as software, biotechnology and information. "The two sides can cement links in this regard," he said.

Southwest China was listed by Ireland as a key area for Sino-Irish cooperation. Ireland's largest investment project in Asia, a factory manufacturing heating installations, was planned in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province, coinciding with China's strategies of developing the west and boosting the northwest, the premier said.

McAleese said the Chinese people had made great achievements in modernization.

Ireland attached great importance to the relationship with China and hoped to fully develop mutual exchanges and cooperation, including politics, economy and trade, culture, science and technology and education, so as to consolidate and develop the friendly partnership between the two countries, she said.

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