Chen Min'er, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee, meets with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who is also ruler of Dubai, at Zabeel Palace in Dubai, the UAE, Sept. 2, 2024. Chen noted that China is willing to work with the UAE to take the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to actively implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning of experience in governance and modernization, and advance the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. Tianjin is ready to give full play to its advantages to strengthen cooperation with the UAE, especially Dubai, in fields such as economy, trade, investment, free trade zone and port construction, thereby contributing to the development of bilateral relations.
At the invitation of the UAE government, a CPC delegation led by Chen visited the Gulf state from Sunday to Wednesday, during which they also met with UAE Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Economy Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, and Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, chairman and chief executive officer of DP World. During the visit, Chen also attended the 2024 "Invest China" Tianjin Session and facilitated the signing of several cooperation agreements, including a memorandum between the Tianjin Free Trade Zone and the UAE's Jebel Ali Free Zone, and a cooperation agreement between Tianjin Port Group and DP World.
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