Beijing, April 13th—The CPC and seven main political parties of Morocco jointly established here today the Belt and Road exchange mechanism for political parties of China and Morocco, and held its first meeting via videolink. Zhu Rui, Assistant Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, and leaders of political parties of the Moroccan side such as Justice and Development Party (PJD), Authenticity and Modernity Party, the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, the National Popular Movement (NPM), the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (SUPF), the Constitutional Union (CU) and the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) attended and addressed the conference.

Zhu said, China and Morocco are good friends with similar ideals and beliefs, good brothers sharing weal and woe and good partners of equality and mutual benefit. Under the care and guidance of President Xi Jinping and King Mohammed VI, bilateral relations have developed rapidly and cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results. The CPC attaches great importance to developing friendly relations with Moroccan political parties. Under the new circumstances, the CPC is willing to strengthen friendly exchanges with all parties, consolidate political mutual trust, promote pragmatic cooperation, and make people-to-people ties closer, so as to jointly contribute wisdom and strength of political parties to the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. Zhu also introduced the CPC's achievements and experience in its governance in the past 100 years, in combination with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC.

The leaders of all parties of the Moroccan side warmly congratulated the CPC on its 100th anniversary, spoke positively of China’s achievements in national liberation and independence, rapid economic development and long-term social stability made in the past 100 years, and wished the Chinese side the realization of the Chinese dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation at an early date. All parties spoke highly of Morocco-China strategic partnership, especially the anti-epidemic cooperation between the two countries, which is a vivid interpretation of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, and hoped that China would continue to support and help Morocco in the fight against the COVID-19. All parties appreciated the CPC’s initiative to establish the Belt and Road exchange mechanism for political parties of both countries. They said they are willing to intensify exchanges and cooperation with the CPC to ensure more achievements of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, and promote the in-depth development of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

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