Chinese vice premier calls for agricultural cooperation

（Xinhua）  11:30, June 10, 2013  

BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Vice Premier Wang Yang on Sunday called for closer agricultural cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean.

In a speech at the China-Latin America and the Caribbean Agricultural Ministers' Forum in Beijing Wang said, "[We] should boost mutually beneficial cooperation in agriculture and other areas in pursuit of win-win development."

More than 300 representatives from both sides attended the forum.

China and Latin America and the Caribbean are complementary to each other in agriculture, and to tap the immense potential for cooperation serves the interests and welfare of the people in all the countries concerned, Wang said.

He proposed that governments involved should work more actively as coordinators to establish stable, pragmatic and effective mechanisms for agricultural cooperation.

Also, enterprises should boost technological exchanges and expand trade of produce, said the vice premier.

China and Latin America and the Caribbean can strengthen communication to safeguard their common interests on major agriculture-related issues, and make joint efforts to push ahead with the formulation of an international produce trading system featuring fairness, justness and stability, he added.