Wang Gang (R), vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), meets with Mothetjoa Metsing, general secretary of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 4, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)

Wang Gang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks when meeting with Mothetjoa Metsing, general secretary of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and Minister of Communications, Science and Technology.

Hailing the smooth growth of China-Lesotho ties in recent years, Wang said the two countries enjoyed increasing mutual political trust, fruitful cooperation in economy, trade, culture and close coordination in international and regional affairs.

Wang, also vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, exchanged views with the delegation on inter-party relations.

The CPC and the Lesotho Congress for Democracy shouldered similar responsibility of developing each country's economy and improving people's living, Wang said.

He said the two parties had made effective cooperation in sharing experience in governance and boosting personnel exchanges.

The CPC attached great importance to promoting the inter-party relations with Lesotho Congress for Democracy, and was willing to further the cooperation in various levels and sectors, said Wang.

Metsing said the main purpose of his visit was to deepen relations between the LCD and the CPC and to learn China's successful experience of state governance and economic development.

Metsing and his delegation was in China on a visit at the invitation of the CPC from Feb. 2 to 8.

"We have now come to a stage where we feel this relationship is so good and so important that we need to take it to a higher level by coming up with a framework of cooperation," he told Xinhua.

"The economic system of China has proven to be one of the good models in the world, because even during this financial crisis, China has recorded a positive economic growth," he said, adding Lesotho hoped to have a closer collaboration with China.

Metsing also commented on the eight new measures announced by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, last November.

He said it was one of the best arrangements Africa had with other trading parters in the world and it was in the interests of the African people.

The measures included, among others, intensification of technical-scientific cooperation, reinforcement of African financial capacities and increased access of African products to the Chinese market.

"China had always been sympathetic to the African cause," he said, "We have a strong feeling that the call by the premier and the eight new measures would further enhance the cooperation we already had with China."