Vice President Li Jianping met with Rustemova, the Turkmenistan Ambassador to China on February 21,2014.

Ambassador Rustemova described the current situation of the humanities cooperation of Turkmenistan with China. She stressed that the relationship between the two countries had been raised to the strategic partnership since the Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Turkmenistan. In order to implement the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, the Turkmenistan Embassy in China will develop various cultural exchange activities in 2014, so as to promote the people-to-people contact between the two countries.

Vice President Li Jianping discribed the work plan of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) on the five countries of Central Asia including Turkmenistan. He expressed that CPAFFC paid great attention to the development of the people-to-people friendly cooperation relationship between China and Turkmenistan, and wished to further the humanities exchanges of the two countries, as well as to promote the cooperation of the both sides in various fields, especially the contact of friendship cities and regions. He also said that CPAFFC would like to support the work of the Turkmenistan Embassy in China and jointly organized correlative activities in future.