Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao wrapped up his four-day official
visit to the United States late on Wednesday and left Boston for
Canada to continue his four-nation tour.?
During his one-day stay in the northeast US port city, Wen
addressed an audience of more than 800 at Harvard University on
China's splendid ancient civilization, its reforms and opening-up,
and its modernization plan.
He also held talks with Massachusetts State Governor Mitt Romney
and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, toured a terminal of Bostonport,
and paid a visit to a farm outside the city, the capital of
Massachusetts.
While meeting with Romney and Menino, the Chinese premier said
that Massachusetts has a relatively large number of Chinese
students and is one of the US regions which had the earliest trade
links with China.
He expressed the hope that as the China-US relations of
constructive cooperation are continuously forging ahead, Boston and
Massachusetts as a whole will play a more vital role in increasing
contacts, friendship and cooperation between the Chinese and
American peoples.
Both Romney and Menino agreed that trade and economic contacts
between Massachusetts and China have brought much tangible benefits
to the people in the US state, including job opportunities. They
hoped that Massachusetts and Boston and China will expand their
cooperation in the future.
Wen's four-nation tour will also bring him to Mexico and
Ethiopia.
(Xinhua News Agency December 11, 2003)