President highlights cooperation, historical connections with Spain President Xi Jinping arrived in Madrid on Tuesday, kicking off the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Spain in 13 years. Upon his arrival in the Spanish capital, Xi said in a written statement that expanding pragmatic cooperation between China and Spain will not only bring benefits to the people of both countries, but also contribute to global peace and prosperity.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, disembark from the plane in Madrid, Spain, Nov. 27, 2018.
Workers load containers onto a cargo train which is about to depart from Yiwu, east China’s Zhejiang province, for Madrid, Spain. Photo by Shi Jiamin from People’s Daily Online.
Students at the Instituto Cultural are learning Chinese at a class offered by the Confucius Institute at the University of Panama. (Photo by Zhu Dongjun from People’s Daily) Instituto Cultural, a school in Panama established nearly 60 years ago, is the first school in the country adopting bi-lingual education in Spanish and English, and also the first one introducing computers and internet.
