While welcoming Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is on a week-long visit to China, the president stated that promulgation of the constitution and formation of new government will create a base for economic development, harmony and progress in Nepal."The Chinese president expressed his willingness to visit Nepal at a mutually convenient date," read a statement issued by the embassy of Nepal in Beijing on Tuesday. Prime Minister Oli called President Xi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday.
Expressing happiness over China's economic progress, the prime minister expressed the hope that Nepal could benefit from unprecedented economic transformation taking place in the neighborhood.
Meanwhile addressing a function at Renmin University of China on Tuesday, Prime Minister Oli applauded China's initiatives aimed at promoting the One-Belt and One-Road project.
Underscoring the need of pursuing mutually beneficial developmental ties without any of ideological prejudices, without any cynicism, the prime minister said through this Belt and Road initiative "we need to create inclusive cooperation, cooperation to realize positive-sum development, cooperation to establish Asia in the forefront of global dynamics."
He said that this initiative will intensify the connectivity in all the manifestations -- connectivity of commerce, cultures, infrastructures, ideas, enterprises and identities within and way beyond Asia.
He said he believes that bringing the cultures and communities together, the Belt and Road initiative will step up the people to people bonds. "It will bring us more closely to realize our shared destiny. A destiny of peace and harmony," he said.
Recalling that Nepal used to be an important thoroughfare of the historic commercial Silk Road, and was a vibrant hub that connected China with the region of South Asia, Oli said he believed, history has bestowed upon us the responsibility to revitalize that role. "To augment the connectivity between our two countries and way beyond; the connectivity that encompasses over 60 countries and 4 billion people," he added.
Describing the economic growth and development of China as one of the inspiring success stories of present times, he said the initiative of Belt and Road will propel our prospects to benefit from the unprecedented transformation that is taking place in China, will cumulate the positive spillovers from development of China. He said that being the immediate neighbor of China, Nepal's gain from this initiative will be remarkable.
"Committed to actively participate in the process of enhancing connectivity, Nepal has joined various international as well as regional platforms. Our involvement in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as founding member is a recent example of our orientation towards development and connectivity," the prime minister said. "The successful process of Belt and Road initiative will unleash our potentials, will converge our interests. With the avenues opened for trade and investment, it will pave a route for prosperity, a route for development," he said. "Well aware of those potentials, our countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding in December 2014 to jointly promote the Silk Road Economic Belt. Both sides have jointly agreed to deepen the connectivity through land highways and rail routes. And we must intensify our undertakings. We must revive the world's promising economic route with the greatest of development potential."
He described the initiative of One Belt-One Road as a principal step to unleash the two sides' potentials to travel together into the cooperative sphere of prosperity, to catalyze the convergence of shared interests, and to weave a tapestry of connectivity that will deepen cooperation between the two sides.
He also informed the gathering at the university that he had fruitful and productive discussions on Nepal-China relations with President Xi and Premier Li Keqiang on Monday. "Cross-border connectivity and infrastructure development; long-term economic partnership encompassing trade, investment, tourism; and, education and cultural exchanges are the key components of our cooperation for the days to come," he said.
He said that the increasing flow of tourists from China has contributed to the growth of Nepal's economy; and that more importantly it augmented the interactions among people, interactions between the cultures.
He believed that with the rapid development of Tibet Autonomous Region of China it would further boost trade and investment between the two countries, ease the constraints of geography and defy the every existing barriers.
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