On the morning of March 13th , Feng Zuoku, Vice President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) met with Hon. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, Minister of Commerce and Industry of Saudi Arabia and his delegation.

Vice President Feng Zuoku welcomed Tawfiq Al-Rabiah and his group, and conveyed the greeting from President Li Xiaolin to them. He described the people-to-people friendly exchanges with Saudi Arabia developed by the CPAFFC in recent years, and reclaimed that the CPAFFC would intensify the efforts on works of friendship with Saudi Arabia, so as to further promote the friendly cooperative relations between China and Saudi Arabia in various fields including economic and trading exchanges.

Hon. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah expressed that it was the first time for him to visit Beijing. Saudi Arabia paid great attention to the friendly cooperative relations with China and the important role of the CPAFFC in  furthering the friendship and cooperation between the people of the two countries. Therefore, his first official mission after arriving in Beijing was to visit the leaders of the CPAFFC. He hoped that the CPAFFC would play a positive role in encouraging Chinese enterprises to invest and run business in Saudi Arabia, and export the Saudi Arabian non-oil products to China. Meanwhile, Tawfiq Al-Rabiah also expected to cooperate with correlative departments of China to build a quality management system in order to control and ensure the quality of the products exported to Saudi Arabia from China, so as to create a better image and reputation for the Chinese Production.