Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On November 23 M.Enkhbold, one of the vice chairmen of the State Great Khural (parliament), met with Ms Yan Junqi, a Vice Chairwoman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress /NPC/ of China, and accompanying her officials who are to take part in the joint meeting of a regular exchange mechanism between the PR of China and Mongolia.

M.Enkhbold thanked his high guest for accepting his invitation and wished her a pleasant stay in Mongolia. He expressed a satisfaction with the chance to open the first meeting of the regular exchange mechanism between Mongolia’s State Great Khural and China’s National People’s Congress.

This is the mobilization of an agreement dealt by the Mongolian and Chinese sides on establishing such a regular exchange mechanism, during the official visit of the Speaker Z.Enkhbold to the People’s Republic of China last October, as invited by Zhang Dejiang, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the NPC, he noted.

He also underlined that Mongolia and the PR of China have been expanding the scope of relations and declared comprehensive strategic partnership in 2014. M.Enkhbold emphasized the importance of intensifying interactions between the two parliaments and friendship groups.

In response, Ms Yan Junqi thanked for the warm welcome and expressed her satisfaction with the opportunity to participate in the joint meeting of regular Mongolia-China inter-parliamentary exchange mechanism, a fruition of recent achievements in the ties between the two countries’ legislations.

As the saying goes in China “A close neighbor is better than a distant relative”, she said, China and Mongolia are not only neighbors, but also close partners in economy. Therefore, she added, it is vital that the two countries improve political trust in light of new ways and opportunities to promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation.

She expressed her belief that the inter-parliamentary exchange will play an important role in realizing this goal.

The meeting concerned Mognolia-China cooperation in commerce, economy, mining, infrastructure, agriculture and other sectors. The two sides exchanged opinions on the development of the two countries, their strategies and ways to coordinate and merge major development projects.

Present at the meeting were also G.Batkhuu MP, the vice chairman of the Mongolia-China Parliamentary group in the State Great Khural; S.Odontuya, D.Terbishdagva and G.Uyanga MPs; B.Boldbaatar, the general secretary of the secretariat of the State Great Khural; and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia D.Gankhuyag.