Slovenian Prime minister visits Shanghai

SHANGHAI—Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa arrived in east China’s Shanghai Saturday, continuing his official visit in China.
Slovenia has just established a representative office in Shanghai for its entrepreneurs and investment activities.
At the opening ceremony of the office Saturday afternoon, Jansa called on more Chinese entrepreneurs to invest and conduct economic and trade cooperation in his country. He met with Slovenian business people later Saturday and toured the Huangpu River of Shanghai.
It is Jansa’s first China visit since he assumed the office of prime minister in 2004.
Earlier, Sino-Slovenian relations had developed smoothly and bilateral cooperation was fruitful since the two countries forged diplomatic ties 15 years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a meeting here on Friday with visiting Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa.
China and Slovenia had maintained mutual respect and developed the reciprocal cooperation, and consulted each other in international affairs in recent years, he added. “We appreciate Slovenia to adhere to the one-China principle and take the friendly policy toward China,” Hu said. He also said China had attached importance to the relations with Slovenia and takes it as China’s good partner in the Balkan region. China would like to take the 15th anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties between the two countries as the new starting point to promote the Sino-Slovenia ties.

—Daily Mail, People’s Daily news exchange item