On April 8, Wang Xiaohui, Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of Sichuan Provincial People's Congress, and Huang Qiang, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Governor of the People's Government of Sichuan Province, met with a visiting delegation of diplomatic envoys to China in Chengdu.

During the meeting, Wang Xiaohui, on behalf of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province, extended welcome to the delegation for their visit to Sichuan and briefed them on the province's economic and social development. He said that Sichuan, lauded as a land of abundance since ancient times, boasts a profound historical and cultural heritage, abundant natural resources, a comprehensive industrial framework, and robust capabilities in science and education, and it plays a distinctive and significant role in the national development agenda, especially in the implementation of the Western Development Strategy. The CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to Sichuan's work. General Secretary Xi Jinping has visited Sichuan several times and made a series of important instructions, drawn a blueprint and guided the course for Sichuan's modernization, and especially entrusted us with the mission of building a strategic highland for opening to the west and a new base for participating in international competition, which provides fundamental guidance for us to promote high-quality development and high-level opening up. Currently, we are thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the decisions and plans of the CPC Central Committee, adhering to combining efforts to "welcome in" and "go global," promoting the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative while closely keeping the actual situation in view, vigorously promoting Sichuan's all-round exchanges with countries, regions, and international organizations worldwide, fostering practical collaborations in various domains, including governmental dialogues, economic and trade investments, scientific and technological innovation, education and healthcare, as well as cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and striving to provide strong support for high-quality development through high-level opening up. It is hoped that the diplomatic envoys will seize this visit as a chance and view Sichuan as a window into the diverse facets of Chinese modernization, deepen mutual understanding, strengthen friendly relations, build more bridges for exchanges, and cultivate more bonds for cooperation, to continually derive mutually beneficial outcomes from deepening our cooperative endeavors.

Ambassador of Cameroon to China Martin Mpana, Ambassador of Burundi to China Telesphore Irambona, Ambassador of Spain to China Marta Betanzos, and Ambassador of Argentina to China Marcelo Suárez Salvia, each delivered speeches and spoke highly of the achievements made by Sichuan in its economic and social development. The ambassadors said that Sichuan possesses a rich cultural legacy, distinctive resource endowments, and vast potential for development, and they will continue to be concerned about and promoting the province, actively fulfill their roles as bridges and bonds, fully explore the prospects for cooperation, and foster enhanced exchanges between their respective countries and Sichuan, striving towards common development.

Ambassadors posted in China from countries including Albania, Gabon, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea-Bissau, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal, Bahamas, Cabo Verde, Nicaragua, Grenada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bolivia, Solomon Islands, and North Macedonia, diplomatic envoys and senior diplomats posted in China from countries including Sri Lanka, Colombia, Kenya, Israel, Chile, Montenegro, and Uganda, heads of the UNIDO Investment Promotion Service for China in Beijing, the ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia, the Mission of the League of Arab States in Beijing, the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization, and Haiti Business Development Office in China; Sichuan provincial leaders Chen Wei and Pubu Dunzhu, and leading officials of relevant departments and bureaus of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relevant Sichuan provincial departments attended the meeting.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized the delegation of diplomatic envoys to China, and Special Representative Wu Hongbo of the Chinese Government on European Affairs accompanied them on the whole visit. From April 8 to 10, the delegation visited Chengdu and Deyang of Sichuan.