Nepal PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal. PTI file
China and Nepal on Monday signed 12 agreements, together with seven MoUs, to boost bilateral cooperation in sectors together with commerce, street connectivity, and data know-how after Premier Li Qiang and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ”Prachanda” held wide-ranging talks in Beijing.
Through the assembly, the 2 leaders comprehensively reviewed the bilateral relations and expressed satisfaction over the shut and cordial ties subsisting between the 2 international locations, in keeping with a press launch issued by the Nepal embassy in Beijing.
The 2 sides exchanged views on the methods to additional strengthen and consolidate the mutual understanding and cooperation and provides a brand new impetus within the entrance of economic system, commerce and people-to-people contacts, it stated, two days after Chinese language President Xi Jinping held talks with Prachanda in Hangzhou on the sidelines of the Asian Video games being held within the japanese Chinese language metropolis.
Prachanda, who politically distanced from the pro-China Communist Social gathering of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) headed by KP Oli after turning into Prime Minister in December final 12 months, made his maiden go to to China after visiting India and the US.
Following the official bilateral talks, 12 agreements have been signed between the 2 international locations, the Nepalese embassy stated.
The agreements embrace an MoU for Cooperation between The Nationwide Planning Fee of Nepal and China’s Nationwide Growth and Reform Fee; an MoU on enhancing digital economic system cooperation; an MoU associated to cooperation on inexperienced and low-carbon improvement; and an MoU on cooperation within the area of agriculture, livestock and fisheries, the discharge stated.
The 2 sides additionally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the institution of a Joint Technical Working Group for the evaluation and modification of the Nepal-China commerce and cost settlement.
In addition they signed a protocol of phytosanitary necessities for the export of plant-derived medicinal supplies for Chinese language drugs from Nepal to China.
China and Nepal additionally signed MoUs on the Hilsa-Simkot Street Venture and the Nepal-China Energy Grid Interconnection Venture (Chilime-Kerung).
The opposite agreements embrace cooperation within the fields of science, know-how and innovation; and within the area of Human Sources Growth, the discharge stated.
Prachanda additionally met with Nationwide Individuals’s Congress Chairman Zhao Leji throughout which they centered on additional broadening the historic ties between Nepal and China and selling trade of high-level visits, it stated.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Prachanda met Chinese language President Xi.
“Had a fruitful meeting with Xi Jinping, President of PR China. We exchanged views on a range of issues of bilateral relations and cooperation in our mutual interests. We agreed to collaborate closely and advance Nepal-China relations to strengthen ever-lasting friendship,” Prachanda stated in a submit on platform X after the assembly.
Prachanda has straight flown to China from New York, the place he addressed the 78th Common Meeting of the United Nations.
