Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is
scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, her
counterpart Li Qiang and Zhao Leji, president of the Standing
Committee of the National People's Congress, the legislative
branch of the Chinese parliament, during her first official
visit to China, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry,
Mao Ning, said on Thursday.
Meloni's visit is scheduled to take place on July 27-31.
The "healthy and stable" development of relations between China
and Italy is "in line with the common interests of both
nations", the spokesperson also said, stressing that bilateral
relations are positive and that China is willing to use Meloni's
first official trip to the country as "an opportunity to
strengthen understanding and confidence, to deepen practical
cooperation and to constantly move forward relations between
China and Italy and between China and the EU".
Meloni's government last year pulled out of China's Belt and
Road Initiative (BRI), having been the only G7 country to sign
up in 2019 for the BRI, one of China's most ambitious
infrastructure and trade plans.
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