China to raise cooperation with neighbors to new level: official

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China to raise cooperation with neighbors to new level: official

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China will make great efforts to raise its level of cooperation with neighbors to new highs in accordance with the principle of treating neighbors as friends andpartners, a senior Chinese official said Friday.

Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the PoliticalBureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, made the remarks during a meeting with Korn Dabbaransi, former deputy prime minister of Thailand and now chairman of the Thai-Chinese Friendship Association.

Li said since China and Thailand established full diplomatic relations 28 years ago, the two countries have respected, helped and treated each other with sincerity. The two have built a brotherly relationship constantly enriched with new vigor.

It is a set policy of China to develop long-term, stable friendship characterized by common prosperity with the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Li said.

"We will uphold the policy of treating neighbors as friends andpartners and push forward the level of cooperation with our neighbors to new highs," he stressed.

The policy was first put forward last year at the 16th NationalCongress of the Communist Party of China. It is meant to maintain stable relations with China's neighboring countries.

China and Thailand decided to exercise no tariffs on 188 types of agricultural products in bilateral trade from Oct. 1 this year.Li said arrangement not only boosted trade and economic cooperation between China and Thailand, but also contributed to the construction of the China-ASEAN free trade area.

Korn said the cooperation between Thailand and China can be an good example of the cooperation between ASEAN and China.

Thailand-China cooperation proved that China's development is by no means a threat, but rather an opportunity hard to come by, said Korn.

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