CIDCA chairman meets with Cuban minister of energy and mines

On April 3, Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) Luo Zhaohui met during his visit to Cuba with Cuban Minister of Energy and Mines Vicente de la O Levy.

Luo said that China and Cuba are good friends, comrades and brothers with mutual trust and a shared destiny. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Cuba relations have maintained high-level development, yielding constant progress. China empathizes with Cuba's temporary challenges, and is ready to strengthen alignment with Cuba, and expand cooperation in new energy areas such as power infrastructure and solar photovoltaic energy to help Cuba overcome its electricity shortage, he added.

O Levy spoke highly of China's long-standing selfless assistance to Cuba, especially with regard to energy. Cuba is willing to learn from China's development experiences and further strengthen bilateral cooperation in power infrastructure and new energy, laying a solid foundation for Cuba's industrial, agricultural and tourism development and bringing tangible benefits to the Cuban people, he said.

The two sides held in-depth exchanges on specific cooperation matters. Chinese Ambassador to Cuba Ma Hui, Huang Yan, a member of the Leading Party Members Group of China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Bai Bin, director-general of the CIDCA's Second Department of Regional Affairs, also attended the meeting.

On the same day, the Chinese delegation, accompanied by Cuban Vice-Minister of Agriculture Maury Hechavarría Bermúdez, conducted a field survey in the rice production area in Pinar del Río Province and the Shanghai Electric photovoltaic power plant in the Mariel Special Development Zone.