China,, Poland vow to advance cooperation

In recent years, the development of China-Poland relations has maintained strong momentum, with remarkable achievements in trade and economic cooperation, Zeng said at a meeting with his Polish counterpart Waldemar Pawlak.

Zeng called on the two countries to continue high-level exchanges and strengthen cooperation in international and regional affairs.

He expressed hope that the two countries could broaden cooperation in such fields as environmental protection, clean energy sources, infrastructures and mining.

2009 will be the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between China and Poland. Wen said he hoped the two sides will take this occasion to share development opportunities and jointly respond to challenges.

Tusk said Poland and China have respected and supported each other in the past.

The export of Polish equipment to the Chinese coal mining sector was booming in the 80s. KOPEX sold to China above 50 longwall mechanized cutting complexes and coal processing machines, protection equipment and hoisting machinery. In the 60s this Polish company constructed coal processing plants in China but also in India, Vietnam, Argentina and Nigeria and after that built the electronically control coal processing plant “Quin Jia Ying.”

After years of lack in contracts with Chinese enterprises, contracts agreed in last months are a turn and a great comeback of the ZZM-KOPEX Group to the China.

Famur representatives were unavailable for comment. At the end of November, a joint contract of both companies came into force: to deliver mining machines to China.

"Our poll results suggest that China has much to learn about winning hearts and minds in the world," said GlobeScan chairman Doug Miller.

"It seems that a successful Olympic Games has not been enough to offset other concerns that people have," he added, referring to the summer games hosted by Beijing in August 2008."

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