BEIJING -- Xu Qiliang, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, has stressed building a strong and modernized maritime law enforcement force.Xu, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while extending his Spring Festival greetings to officers and soldiers at the headquarters of the Chinese Coast Guard under the armed police.Asking about the ongoing patrols on the East China Sea and the South China Sea, Xu required the officers and soldiers to be well-prepared for different cases, encouraging them to staunchly safeguard China's maritime rights and interests.He called for solid practices to further develop the coast guard force, noting that it concerns the overall strategy of building China into a maritime power.Xu also stressed steadily enhancing the coast guard's readiness to safeguard maritime rights and enforce the law on the sea and improving their capability to deal with related risks and challenges. custom bar braceletcustom sports braceletscustom logo wristbandsde securite pour personne ageeembossed wristbandscolorfilled wristbandsembossed printed wristbandsdual layer wristbands
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) welcomes visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena in Beijing on March 26, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] China is willing to work with Sri Lanka for better development of a strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries, President Xi Jinping said in a message addressed to Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday. In the message to congratulate Sri Lanka on the 70th anniversary of its independence from British colonial rule in 1948, Xi recalled the traditional friendship and mutual assistance between China and Sri Lanka. He said the two countries conducted pragmatic cooperation within the framework of joint construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, achieving fruitful results. I pay high attention to the development of China-Sri Lanka relations, and I am willing to make concerted efforts with President Sirisena to push the China-Sri Lanka strategic cooperative partnership of sincere mutual assistance and long-standing friendship to keep achieving greater development in the better interest of the two countries and the two peoples, Xi said. Proposed by China in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa based on ancient routes.
