CPC Increases Contacts with Foreign Parties: Official

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, December 27, 2001

CPC Increases Contacts with Foreign Parties: Official

The Communist Party of China (CPC) has made marked progress in enhancing contacts with political parties in foreign countries in 2001, said Dai Bingguo, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee. In a Xinhua interview Dai said that the CPC's exchanges with foreign parties are all aimed at safeguarding world peace and promoting development and progress.

Contacts to strengthen relations

He said that in the past year, the CPC received over 200 delegations from political parties of over 100 countries, and sent more than 100 delegations abroad, which has enhanced mutual understanding and trust and promoted party-to-party and state-to- state relations.

The department also held international seminars on party- building theories and practices, and sent a dozen panel groups on study tours abroad in the year, according to Dai.

He said that over the past year the CPC promoted relations with parties, parliaments and statesmen of some countries that have no diplomatic ties with China, conducted exchanges and cooperation with non-ruling parties, and established regular exchange mechanisms with young statesmen of major parties of some countries.

So far, the CPC has established relations with over 400 parties in over 140 countries, Dai said.

Neighboring countries

In its exchanges with parties of China's neighboring countries, the CPC aimed at building good-neighborly relations, enhancing cooperation of mutual benefit and safeguarding regional peace and stability, Dai said.

ASEAN, WPK and Public of Korea

The CPC furthered its contacts with political parties of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), resulting in more consensus and increased exchanges with the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and major parties of the Republic of Korea, Dai said.

Russia, Mongolia, India, Central Asia countries

The CPC also maintained a good momentum in developing its relations with major parties of Russia, Mongolia, India and countries in central Asia, added Dai.

Continue exchanges with Japan although frictions

He said that despite frictions in Sino-Japanese relations, the CPC continued its exchanges with Japanese parties and statesmen.

Meanwhile, the CPC attached importance to the exchange of experience in governing the country and promotion of mutually beneficial cooperation with parties of developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, said Dai, citing the discussions with delegations from ruling parties of some African countries as part of the following-up actions of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum. Some Latin American political parties had sent delegations to China to discuss political and economic cooperation with China, Dai said.

Exchanges with developed countries

Exchanges between the CPC and the political parties of developed countries, West European parties in particular, have progressed in an unprecedented way, according to Dai.

The CPC received more than 40 delegations from European parties and sent a number of groups to visit Europe. Besides, the CPC also sent a delegation to visit the European Parliament for the first time as guests of the people's party group, and conducted sincere dialogs with all party groups, according to Dai.

This shows the CPC will make friends with all parties in the world to enhance understanding, remove prejudices, deepen trust and seek common ground, Dai said.

Business contacts

He said that with economic factors' increased role in international relations, to promote economic and trade cooperation through political exchanges has become a point of view shared by all statesmen.

He said that during their visits abroad in the past year, members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, who hold leading positions in provinces or municipalities, took business people with them to explore business opportunities with effective results.

In line with China's strategy for developing its western areas, the CPC gave more opportunities to western areas when organizing groups to visit foreign countries, said Dai.

Moreover, more than 70 delegations from foreign parties, especially those from developed countries, visited China's western areas, he said.

Dai said that the International Department of the CPC Central Committee will strive for a bigger role in serving China's diplomacy, reform and opening-up drive, strengthening the CPC's role as the ruling party, and building socialism with Chinese characteristics.

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The Communist Party of China, founded in shanghai in July 1921, is the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the faithful representative of the interests of the people of all nationalities in China, and the force at thecore leading China's cause of socialism.

The Party's ultimate goal is thecreation of a communist social system. The CPC takes Marxism-Lenimism and Mao Zedong Thoughts as its guide to action. More

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General Secretary of the Central Committee: Jiang Zemin

Guiding Ideology: Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought

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