President El-Sisi Meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Riyadh

Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Riyadh. 

The Spokesman for the Presidency said that President El-Sisi offered his congratulations once again to the Chinese president for his re-election as the General Secretary of the Communist Party for a third term.The President expressed confidence in China's continuation to move forward on the path of development under President Xi Jinping's leadership and looked forward to working with China in the coming period to enhance relations between the two sides, particularly in light of the historical and extended friendship between the two countries and their peoples. President El-Sisi affirmed Egypt’s keenness to develop joint cooperation at various levels, both within the collective Arab context and bilateral framework through the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

For his part, China’s president congratulated President El-Sisi on Egypt’s high-level organization of the World Climate Summit (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh and its great success. He  also noted that his country values the ties it shares with Egypt and constantly seeks to promote its partnership with Egypt in all fields, particularly by expanding and diversifying cooperation frameworks. This is in addition to supporting Egypt in the current development process led by President El-Sisi. President Jinping noted that Egypt has promising opportunities for Chinese investments and companies, therefore there are broad prospects for improving trade exchange and economic cooperation between the two friendly countries.

The meeting reviewed aspects of cooperation between the two countries. President El-Sisi noted the integration of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with Egypt’s development efforts, particularly the development of the Suez Canal Corridor 
and state's infrastructure including the sectors of roads, seaports and energy. President El-Sisi expressed that Egypt looked forward to increasing the flow of Chinese tourists to Egypt. This is in addition to encouraging Chinese companies to maximize their investments in Egypt, particularly in the areas of co-manufacturing localization and Chinese technology transfer, in light of the Egyptian government's support to the Chinese companies.
Views were exchanged on developments in the Middle East, in light of he challenges the region is facing. The Chinese president valued Egypt’s leading role in safeguarding peace, security and stability in the region, particularly fighting terrorism and extremism ,as well as  Egypt’s active efforts to reach political settlements to various crises within its regional surrounding. A role that China relies on to consolidate the China-Arab partnership.