China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Friday met with former Lao President and former President of Lao People's Revolutionary Party Khamtay Siphandone, saying China is willing to join hands with Laos to push forward their good-neighborly friendship and all-round cooperation.

Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top advisory body, spoke highly of Khamtay's prominent contribution to promoting the relations between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the ties between the two countries.

With efforts from the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries, bilateral cooperation and exchanges at various levels and in various fields have been making progress, and the overall bilateral relationship is now in its best period, Jia noted.

Jia said the CPC and the Chinese government will continue to commit to enhancing China-Lao friendship and cooperation and enable the two countries to be good neighbors, good friends, good comrades and good partners for ever.

Jia also conveyed Chinese President Hu Jintao's greetings to Khamtay.Khamtay asked Jia to deliver his best wishes to Hu.

Khamtay said Laos and China have enjoyed a tradition of solidarity, friendship and mutual assistance, and such tradition is demonstrating new vigor and vitality in the new era.

Laos is eager to learn Chinese experience to develop itself, and obtain greater achievements in advancing bilateral friendship and cooperation so as to better benefit the two nations, Khamtay added.

Source: Xinhua