TEHRAN (Iran News) – High-ranking Iranian and Chinese officials in a meeting in Tehran reviewed avenues to further broaden relations between the two countries in customs and trade fields. Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua in a meeting with Iran Customs Administration Governor Mehdi Mirashrafi examined a new plan to expand customs cooperation and facilitate […]
TEHRAN (Iran News) – High-ranking Iranian and Chinese officials in a meeting in Tehran reviewed avenues to further broaden relations between the two countries in customs and trade fields.
Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua in a meeting with Iran Customs Administration Governor Mehdi Mirashrafi examined a new plan to expand customs cooperation and facilitate trades of Tehran-Beijing, Iran News quotes what Fars News Agency reported.
Mirsharafi pointed to strong trade relations of Tehran-Beijing, offering proposals to bolster trade exchanges between the two states.
He proposed issues like exchanging customs information in the framework of training both sides’ employees, strengthening the Silk Road, creation of a joint trade gate and exchanging X-ray images by both sides as well as holding meetings every six months to access better and faster results.
Hua, for his part, appreciated Iran’s Customs Administration’s officials, and underlined that Iran is among the largest trade partners of China, so expansion of such ties is important to China.
In September, Iran’s Labor Minister Mohammad Shariatmadari, in a meeting with Hua, described bilateral ties between the two countries as constructive, and called for strategic cooperation in bilateral and international arenas.
Shariatmadari described Iran-China relations in the international arena as constructive and voiced Iran’s readiness for exchanging delegations.
He added the countries enjoy old and friendly relations which could be strategic at bilateral and international levels.
Referring to President Hassan Rouhani’s negotiations with Chinese officials at the meeting of the Council of Heads of States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), he underlined that the negotiations could be regarded as a roadmap for both sides’ cooperation.
He expressed Iran’s readiness for exchanging specialized delegations to implement the terms of the signed MoUs.
- source : Iran Daily, Irannews
