Friday, April 25, 2014

Shao Qiwei Meets with Hungarian Guests



On February 13, 2014, Shao Qiwei, Minister of China National Tourism Administration, met a party headed by Horváth Victoria, Deputy State Secretary in charge of tourism affairs under the Hungarian Ministry of National Economy in Beijing. The two sides conducted in-depth communication on establishing the Federation of China-CEE Tourism Promotion Organizations and Tourism Enterprises and enhancing tourism cooperation between the two countries.

Shao Qiwei noted, at the witness of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, China National Tourism Administration and Hungarian Ministry for National Economy signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Jointly Promoting Establishment of the Federation of China-CEE Tourism Promotion Organizations and Tourism Enterprises. It aims to further tourism exchanges and cooperation between China and the 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe with Hungary as the window and the Federation as the platform, and expand the scale of personnel exchange between the two sides.

Shao Qiwei added, the Chinese side welcomes and appreciates that the Hungary actively facilitates the executive organization of the Federation to be based in the country and hopes the Hungarian side will play a leading role in overall coordination of tourism administration departments in Central and Eastern Europe and encourage extensive cooperation among relevant enterprises from those countries.

Horváth said, the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding marks a new start in the tourism exchanges between China and Hungary and CEE at large. As a representative of CEE and the base of the Coordination Center of the Federation, Hungary is ready to work jointly with the Chinese side, to do a good job as the coordination center, and make due contributions to the tourism cooperation and communication between China and CEE.

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