Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Prime Minister of the
Republic of Korea (ROK) Han Duck-soo attended a grand performance
in Beijing on Monday evening, marking the closing of the China-ROK
Exchange Year, a year-long bilateral cultural program.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Prime
Minister of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Han Duck-soo attend a grand
performance in Beijing on Monday evening, marking the closing of
the China-ROK Exchange Year, a year-long bilateral cultural
program.??
Young artists from the two countries, including renowned
dancers, child singers and disabled performers, presented a
fantastic show to the two leaders along with an audience of over a
1,000 people.?
Addressing the occasion, Premier Wen said that over 100
activities were held under the framework of the China-ROK Exchange
Year, evoking warm acclamations and positive responses from the
public and boosting mutual understanding and win-win cooperation
between both countries.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
on Monday addresses the closing ceremony of the China-ROK Exchange
Year, a year-long bilateral cultural program.
Considering youth as the future of a nation and as
a fresh force to inherit China-ROK friendship, Wen called on youth
of the two countries to have more idea exchanges in order to begin
cultivating trust and friendship from childhood onward.
Hailing the remarkable progress of bilateral ties in the past 15
years, Han Duck-soo said that the ROK would join hands with China
to step up bilateral all-round cooperative ties and strive for a
better future for northeast Asia.
He believed that the China-ROK Exchange Year had cemented
traditional friendship between the two peoples and laid a sound
foundation for future bilateral cooperation.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of China-ROK diplomatic
ties as well as the Year of China-ROK Exchange.
(Xinhua News Agency December 11, 2007)
