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Governor Mao Leads Hunan Delegation to Barbados

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Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Hunan governor, led a delegation to Barbados between April 20 and 22, 2024. This visit aimed to implement President Xi Jinping's important instructions on advancing the building of a China-Barbados community with a shared future. During the tour, Governor Mao and the delegation held high-level meetings, inspected the aid projects in Barbados, and witnessed the signing of cooperation agreements. These will help promote Hunan's high-quality engagement in the national Belt and Road Initiative, and make Hunan's contributions to achieving win-win collaboration and building an even closer China-Barbados community with a shared future.

Qu Hai, secretary general of the provincial government, joined the tour. Yan Xiusheng, Chinese ambassador to Barbados, attended.



Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Hunan governor, met with Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley on April 22.



Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and Hunan governor, met with Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley on April 22.


Barbados is an island country located at the eastern end of the Lesser Antilles in the southeastern Caribbean Sea in North America. Covering an area of 431 square kilometers, it is home to 289,000 people. It was the earliest country in Eastern Caribbean to establish diplomatic relations with China. In June 2023, Hunan and Bridgetown, capital of Barbados, knotted friendship province-city ties.

During the visit, Govern Mao met with Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, Deputy Prime Minister Santia Bradshaw, and Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indal Weir.


Mao quoted a Chinese saying that “Distance cannot separate true friends who remain close even when thousands of miles apart”. In recent years, the exchanges and cooperation between Hunan and Barbados has entered the "fast lane" of development, especially in such areas as friendship-city relations, agriculture, and education. This has brought tangible benefits to the people of both places.

At present, Hunan has been following the beautiful blueprint drawn by President Xi Jinping, and making continuous efforts to achieve the "Three Hubs" goals, in a bid to write a Hunan chapter in Chinese modernization. Hunan is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with Barbados, and continuously enhance mutual political trust, deepening cooperation in the fields of agriculture, education, economy and trade, energy, culture and tourism, so as to promote high-quality implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative in a thorough and in-depth manner, boosting China-Barbados cooperation to achieve fruitful results.

Mia Mottley and other Barbados officials noted that the cooperation between Barbados and China is fruitful and promising. Barbados will actively participate in China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Global Development Initiative, and fully learn from China's successful experience in development. Barbados is looking forward to giving full play to the resource endowment and complementary industrial advantages of both sides, and carrying out in-depth and practical cooperation in tackling climate change, agriculture, energy construction, and human resources development, among other issues, so as to benefit both places and the people.



Governor Mao met with Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Bradshaw and witnessed the signing of cooperation agreement together on April 22.



Governor Mao met with Barbados Deputy Prime Minister Bradshaw and witnessed the signing of cooperation agreement together on April 22.



Governor Mao met with Barbados Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indal Weir and witnessed the signing of cooperation agreement together on April 21.



Governor Mao met with Barbados Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indal Weir and witnessed the signing of cooperation agreement together on April 21.



Governor Mao inspected an upland rice and vegetable plantation in Barbados on April 21.



Governor Mao inspected a Zoomlion-Barbados collaborative sugarcane plantation on April 21. 


Governor Mao met with Chinese Ambassador to Barbados Yan Xiusheng on April 20.


Photos were taken by Sun Minjian and Shen Xiangjin

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn


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