Fruitful results have been achieved in Premier Wen Jiabao's four-nation tour to South Asia. China signed a treaty for friendly and neighborly cooperation with Pakistan; issued joint communiques with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and inked an agreement on political guiding principles on solving the border issue with India. In addition China has reached dozens of economic cooperation agreements with the four nations. All these have not only made the political foundation for peace and friendship between China and the South Asia consolidate further, but also the economic and trade ties of good-neighborliness' cooperation firmer.

Premier Wen's trip to the South Asia has further pushed forward the mutual trust politically and the traditional friendly relations between China and the South Asia. From monk Fa Xian's pilgrimage to India, monk Xuan Zhuang's journey to the west to Zheng He's ocean voyages for seven times to the west, China had frequent exchanges with the South Asia in ancient history. The southwest silk-road linked China and the Indian sub-continent more closely.

It is more significant for Premier Wen's visit as this year marks the 55th anniversary of Sino-Indian diplomatic relations and the 30th anniversary of Sino-Bangladeshi diplomatic relations. A series of treaties and agreements signed during Premier Wen's visit will not only inherit and develop the friendly history of China and the South Asia, but also make the bilateral cooperative mechanism guaranteed with directional guidance under the new international situation, which will make the all-weather strategic cooperative relations between China and Pakistan further consolidate; the overall cooperative partnership between China and Bangladesh and that between China and Sri Lanka richer in contents; and the constructive cooperative partnership between China and India firmer. The common demand for peace and development will boost mutual trust between China and the South Asian countries politically and close cooperation economically so that the mutual win based on the true foundation of "being good with and accompanied by neighbors'' will be achieved.

The dozens of economic and trade agreements reached between China and the four nations during the Premier Wen's trip involves a wide range of contents and are more pragmatic and pertinent, which will be beneficial to further strengthening the economic ties for good-neighborliness. China has reached operational and multi-layered cooperative agreements with the four nations according to their different national conditions and the different progresses with the economic and trade cooperation between China and the four nations, and their good intentions will be turned into more extensive economic and trade cooperation.

China and India are both big developing countries with large markets and being strong in mutual complements. China and India have singed more than 30 cooperative agreements including the five-year economic cooperation program, which will not only push forward Sino-Indian trade volume to reach the 25 billion US-dollar trade target set for 2010, but also add active contents for the two big countries to carry out pragmatic cooperation. With the efforts made towards the establishment of free trade zone and the implementation of energy cooperation between China and India the Sino-Indian economic and trade cooperation will play a leading role in the South Asia and, in turn, push forward the mutual trust between China and India politically and accelerate the settlement of the issues left over by history. The "early harvest agreement'' and many large-size engineering cooperative projects of construction signed between China and Pakistan will further consolidate the economic foundation for Sino-Pakistani strategic relations of cooperation. Aiming at settling the trade imbalance between China and Bangladesh and that between China and Sri Lanka China will devoted itself to enlarging imports and encourage Chinese enterprises to invest in the two countries. China will give economic assistance to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka within its own ability, showing the demeanor of a big country with harmonic friendship.

Premier Wen's visit to the South Asia will greatly push forward the cooperation between China and the South Asian region and boost common development and prosperity of China and the South Asia. The overall promotion of Sino-Indian relations will not only benefit the people of the two countries and lay a solid foundation for Asian prosperity and stability, but also bring a powerful change to the world's politics and economy. The various "partnership relations'' between China and the South Asian countries will not eject each other. The double-win can be realized in the cooperation between China and Pakistan and that between China and India while Indian and Pakistani relations will be improved in an all-round way. After the visit to the South Asian by Premier Wen the security environment for China and the South Asian countries will be more favorable while the harmonious co-existence, common prosperity and benign competition will become the theme between China and India as well as between China and the South Asian countries.

With the gradual implementation of the series agreements signed between China and the four nations in the South Asia as well as with the increase of bilateral high-level and non-governmental exchanges the mutual complements in economy and political cooperation between China and the South Asian countries will reach to a new high and the Asian century is sure to come.

By People's Daily Online