WILLEMSTAD - On Friday September 20, the Chinese Consulate General in Curaçao held an event to mark the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.
During this event, the acting Consul General Xue Shan greeted his guests during his speech. Prime Minister Eugene Rhuggenaath also spoke to those present.
Consul Xue indicated that over the past 70 years, since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, especially in the past 40 years of reform and opening-up, China has gone through a dramatic change, tremendous development has been made. Living standards of more than 1.3 billion people have been significantly improved, more than 700 million people have been lifted out of poverty, and GDP per Capita has risen to 9000 USD.
“China has become the world's second largest economy, the largest trader of goods, and contributed 30% to the world economic growth in recent years,” said Consul Xue.
Consul Xue also indicated that China's development will bring more opportunities to the world. “China will follow the principle of wide consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, to develop global partnerships, to expand friendly cooperation, and to achieve win-win results.”
At the end of his speech Consul Xue reminded his guests that this year marks the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Chinese Consulate General in Willemstad. “We are glad to see that the exchange of two peoples and mutual understanding have been much developed, we have enjoyed a more broad and diverse relationship, built on mutually beneficial engagement and growing relations, more and more local people are willing to travel to China for leisure or for business, more and more local people are interested in learning Chinese language and Chinese culture, more and more Chinese people know about Curacao and the Dutch Caribbean. Friendship, which derives from close contact between the people, holds the key to sound state-to-state relations. The Chinese Consulate is willing to continue to preserve and further consolidate our bilateral friendly relations,” Consul Xue concluded.
