Nicolás Maduro with Xi Jinping in an archive photo (Portal/Jorge Silva)
The Chinese President, Xi Jinpingmet this Wednesday in Beijing with the Venezuelan dictator, Nicolas Madurowho has been on an official visit to the Asian country since September 8th last year.
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“I am very pleased to join you in announcing the elevation of China-Venezuela relations to the level of a strategic partnership for all time.” Xi said, according to images broadcast on state television.
The It is the highest level of Chinese diplomacy. Only a handful of countries (Pakistan, Russia, Belarus) have this agreement.
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Maduro and his delegation were received in People’s Palacethe monumental building next to Tiananmen Square, where foreign dignitaries are usually received.
The capital was the Chavista’s last stop on his journey to Chinawhich began in the southern city of Shenzhen and also stopped in the megalopolis of Shanghai and Shandong Province (east).
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Ripe announced on Monday that Three delegations from your country will travel to China “in the coming weeks” to conduct business there with public and private companies in the cities of Shenzhen and Shanghai and in Shandong Province.
Nicolás Maduro with his wife Cilia Flores upon their arrival in Beijing (Miraflores Palace/Handout via Portal)
“We have decided to unite the regions a partnership agreement and a common development plan (…) and we have signed investment and technology agreements involving the most advanced Chinese companies in the world,” said the Chavista from China.
Although he did not specify the dates on which these trips will take place, he explained that this is one of the purposes of his visit to China, which began on September 8th Build new alliances and receive investments and technologyparticularly in Venezuela’s so-called special economic zones, which offer tax and customs incentives.
Maduro said one of the delegations would be led by the governor of La Guaira state, the ruling party. Jose Alejandro Teranwho will visit Shenzhen together with Venezuelan businessmen with the aim of “hold a business conference and achieve investment and economic transfer“.
Likewise the Minister of Petroleum and President of the state-owned PDVSA, Rafael Tellecheawill lead the group that will go to the city Shanghai looking for a business after it is established”a joint comprehensive development agreement” between this Chinese city and the state of Carabobo in northern Venezuela.
In addition, the Minister of Agriculture Wilmar Castro Soteldowill lead the Venezuelan team that will develop agricultural projects together with the province Shandong.
“We have come to open doors for Venezuela in China, to consolidate a new, higher level of growth despite all odds, seeing the example of the 21st century superpower China,” emphasized the Venezuelan dictator.