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2014-05-09

Li Keqiang: Consular Protection Always around Our Compatriots Wherever They Are, Safety Is My Greate

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   There are more than 200,000 Chinese citizens in Angola, taking a quarter of all Chinese citizens in Africa. On the afternoon of May, 8 (local time), Premier Li Keqiang held a symposium on overseas livelihood engineering in Luanda, Angola, listening to the opinions and suggestions of China-invested enterprises and Chinese citizens about how to do the overseas livelihood work well.

   Li Keqiang said you leave your homeland and then live and work in this remote place, the motherland and people miss and care you very much. I am glad to meet you here and listen to your ideas and suggestions.
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    In the symposium, representatives from the state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and Chinese Chamber of Commerce made active speeches, respectively talking about their feelings to the local work and life and giving the proposals on how to better maintain the interests and rights of overseas enterprises and citizens. The representative of young employees also submitted their written suggestions on development of overseas employees to Li Keqiang. 

    Li Keqiang said as China continues expanding its opening up, more and more Chinese enterprises and citizens go global, so legitimate rights and interests and even personal safety are more and more prominent. Livelihood is a thing of the first importance, to truly protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises and citizens abroad is not only a necessity for expanding the opening up, but also the responsibility that our Party and Government ought to perform. 

    Li Keqiang said although Chinese enterprises and citizens that develop themselves abroad work hard in the tide of market-oriented economy, it is not a zero-sum game but a game with mutual benefit and win-win, in this way to truly make the fruitful achievements of opening up. In order to combine the local and overseas livelihoods, Chinese enterprises and citizens must abide by the local laws, respect the customs and manners, try their best to properly perform the social responsibilities, maintain China’s good image, get along well with the country of residence, and serve as the qualified friendship ambassadors.  

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    Li Keqiang pointed out that the diplomatic work serves not only the general situation of a state but also the overseas enterprises and citizens. The Party Central Committee and the State Council pay high attention to the capacity building of overseas livelihood engineering. We ought to put more investment to consular protection, intensify the overseas consular protection power, establish the global consular protection emergency call center as soon as possible and ensure the consular protection service around our compatriots wherever they are. Your safety is our greatest wish. The Chinese Government will strengthen the relationship with the country where Chinese enterprises and citizens are and attempt to create the good conditions for you to have a safe and happy life abroad.  

    More than 40 participants from China-invested enterprises, chamber of commerce and staff representatives in Angola attended this symposium. 

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