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19:54, September 30, 2007 |
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met on Sunday in Beijing with 50 foreign experts who had won the Friendship Awards for their outstanding performance in China.
Wen extended congratulations to the experts and expressed his thanks to their outstanding contributions to China's modernization drive.
Wen said China would keep introducing talented people from other countries. China's opening-up policy would not change. He pledged to create better working conditions for foreign experts.
The Friendship Award, set up in 1991, is China's highest award for foreign experts who have made outstanding contributions to China's economic and social progress.
A total of 949 experts from 56 countries have received the award.
After the meeting, Wen invited the experts and their families to attend the grand reception to mark the 58th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Source: Xinhua
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