German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet Chinese leaders in Beijing next week and unveil a three-year program of German presentation throughout China.
During her stay in China from August 26 to 29 she will hold talks with Chinese president Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao. Her visit comes after eight phone conversations between the premiers and five meetings between top leaders of the two countries in the past three years, indicating a stronger bilateral ties, said German Ambassador to China Dr. Volker Stanzel in Beijing on August 20.
The issue of climate change, said Dr. Stanzel, is the largest cooperation that China and Germany could have. He added that there was political commitment on resolving the problem between the top leaders of the two countries but further discussions would be needed to smooth the disagreement on the way to achieve that. He disclosed that it would be one of the subjects of Merkel's upcoming talks with Beijing.
Ms. Merkel will also declare a three-year German presentation campaign throughout China. The campaign will prelude with a concert by a Chinese-German hybrid symphony orchestra in Beijing on August 27 and drop the curtain at Shanghai Expo in 2010.
Ms. Merkel's China visit will also bring her to Nanjing which is the first stop of the three-year program. Dr. Stanzel explained that Germany hopes the program would impress Chinese people, not only those in Beijing and Shanghai, but also those in smaller cities in particular, with an innovative, modern and open Germany.
Although a ballet will be the first to be offered in Nanjing for the program, culture is only one of the aspects that Germany would like to show off to Chinese people. As many of their local partners in Nanjing are German-funded companies, business will be highlighted there. And when it moves to Chongqing, Shenyang, Chengdu and other cities, different facades of Germany will be showcased.
In an interview with People's Daily Online in March this year, Dr. Stanzel said China would also show her best in Germany after the three-year program was concluded by Germany in China.
Germany will act as a Country of Honor at Beijing International Book Fair to be launched this month and China will play the same role at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2009.
Dr. Stanzel believes that the China-Germany partnership of global responsibility within the China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership best defines the relationship between the two countries. In his last interview with People's Daily Online, he illustrated that that definition means the two partners have identified global issues that are important to both sides but cannot be solved unilaterally by either side.
By People's Daily Online
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