It will take some time for the two sides to get to know each other, ... open and unimpeded and they have kept closely in touch.

Our country will abide by its commitments and further open up domestic markets and open up in a step-by-step manner banking, insurance, telecommunications, foreign and internal trade, tourism and other service sectors.

We do acknowledge that we have deficiencies in the area of human rights, but at the same time we would also say that the people in China are enjoying a level of human rights that is unprecedented in our history,

use a thousand ways to boost rural income and decrease peasants' burden.

underestimate the ability of the Chinese people to develop their own technology.

I want to stress in particular the personal friendship the prime minister and I have already forged,