China and Cuba define common development routes

 With the purpose of deepening cooperation between China and Cuba in areas of mutual interest, a seminar dedicated to the modernization of the Asian nation was held on Monday at the Higher School of State and Government Cadres, in Havana.

Zhang Laiming, vice minister of the Research Center for Development of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and vice president of the International Knowledge Center for Development, shared some keys to the modernization process in his country.

He pointed out that over time China has implemented a series of strategic and progressive steps on the path of cementing efforts towards building a strong nation and a prosperous, sustainable socialism in harmony with nature and the model of peaceful and multipolar development.

This has been made possible by the efforts of the Communist Party and the people to combine the ideas of Marxism with the cultural, historical and traditional peculiarities of the Asian giant, he said.

For his part, Eduardo Martinez Diaz, Cuban deputy prime minister, conveyed to Zhang a greeting on behalf of Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister of Cuba, who is following with interest the program of the Chinese official in Cuba.

Mercedes Delgado Fernandez, rector of the center hosting the meeting, highlighted on the occasion a clear demonstration of the willingness to collaborate for more than a decade with more than 20 counterpart academic institutions in the Asian country.

He stressed the importance of learning about the experience of the Asian country in the construction of socialism with its own peculiarities, as a step forward in achieving a community of shared future between Cuba and China and the consensus reached between Presidents Miguel Diaz-Canel and Xi Jinping.

Other participants in the event included Hua Xin, Chinese ambassador to Cuba, representatives of the Ministries of Communications and Energy and Mines, as well as the Biocubafarma Business Group, who highlighted the potential for strengthening cooperation in areas such as digital transformation, the transition to renewable energy sources, the pharmaceutical industry and the development of science and innovation, among others.