According to comprehensive reports from Worldway: From July 7 to 9, 2014, Lv Zushan, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) and Vice Chairman of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, led an NPC Financial and Economic Affairs Committee delegation to visit Latvia. During the visit, he met with Speaker of the Saeima Solvita Āboltiņa, and held talks with Jānis Ozoliņš, Chairman of the Economic, Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Policy Committee; Jānis Reirs, Chairman of the Budget and Finance (Taxation) Committee; Ojārs Ēriks Kalniņš, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; and Sergejs Potapkins, Chairman of the Latvia-China Friendship Group. The delegation also visited the Ministry of Economics of Latvia to receive a briefing on the country's economic development.
Vice Chairman Lv Zushan spoke positively of the development of China-Latvia relations and the friendly exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries in recent years. He stated that the purpose of the delegation's visit was to understand Latvia's economic performance, introduce China's economic and social development, identify complementarities for bilateral economic and trade cooperation, and promote the development of pragmatic cooperation between the two nations.
Speaker Āboltiņa spoke fondly of her recent successful visit to China, stating that Latvia attaches great importance to developing relations with China and looks forward to strengthening pragmatic cooperation. Mr. Ozoliņš and others noted that China's economic achievements are recognized worldwide, and the Latvian side expressed its admiration. They expressed confidence that against the backdrop of Latvia's steady economic growth and accession to the Eurozone, there is significant potential for both sides to explore further in the field of economic and trade cooperation.
Yang Guoqiang, Chinese Ambassador to Latvia, accompanied the delegation during the aforementioned activities.
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