Chinese President Hu Jintao said here Friday China is ready to work with Romania to make positive progress in pragmatic cooperation between the two countries.

Hu said the Chinese government has always supported well-established Chinese companies to invest and set up businesses in Romania.

Hu made the remarks as he met with Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc who is here to attend the opening ceremony of the 2011 Summer Universiade.

Hu welcomed Boc to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Universiade. He thanked Boc for handing over to him a letter from Romanian President Traian Basescu. He expressed appreciation on President Basescu for attaching great importance to developing bilateral relations with China.

China and Romania established diplomatic relations three days after the founding of new China in 1949. Over the past more than six decades, bilateral links have weathered changes of the international situation and internal conditions of both countries. The people of the two countries have shared time-honored friendship as they always respect, understand, support and treat each other as equals.

Over the years, leaders of the two countries have maintained frequent contact. Chinese President Hu visited Romania in 2004 as the two countries established a comprehensive, friendly and cooperative partnership. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited the country in 2009. The latest visit by senior Chinese leaders to Romania was in April, when Li Changchun went to Bucharest in the capacity of Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee.

Boc visited China in 2006. This was the first time that Boc visited China since he assumed office of the Prime Minister in 2009.

In the past decade, trade volume between the two countries have increased by ten folds with Romania exports to China growing by big margin. Under support of the government, Chinese companies have steadily increased investment in Romania. The two sides have carried out mutually beneficial cooperation in the areas of culture, science, technology, education and military exchanges. They have maintained sound coordination and communication on regional and international issues.

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