The Communist Party of China (CPC) has made remarkable achievements through dynamic high-level exchanges with foreign political parties this year, which contributed to China's foreign relations, said a senior CPC official Thursday.

The exchanges between the CPC and political parties of other socialist countries, neighboring countries and other developing countries have helped promote China's relations with them, said Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee.

The CPC also had wide exchanges with political parties in developed countries with an open mind and constructive attitude, which has promoted mutual understanding and expanded consensus with them.

The increasingly close contacts between the CPC and international and regional organizations of political parties also helped increase China's influence on the international stage, said Wang in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.

Wang cited the visit of Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and China's president, to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Vietnam not long ago as the culmination of the CPC's high-level exchanges with foreign political parties.

The CPC has received more than 100 high-level delegations headed by leaders of some foreign political parties so far this year, according to Wang.

Through these high-level exchanges, CPC leaders held candid dialogues with foreign political leaders or statesmen, exchanged experience with them in administering state and party affairs, as well as views on major international and regional issues of common concern, he said.

"This has played an irreplaceable important role in promoting the steady development of relations between China and other countries," Wang added.

Source: Xinhua