China to host foreign leaders following key CPC congress

Soon after Xi Jinping was elected for the third term, China is all set to unveil diplomatic events. According to The Global Times, Beijing is all set to welcome several foreign leaders from countries with different political systems and economic development paths, illustrating that more countries hold positive views on China's future development and welcome the country's foreign policy embedded with the concept of humanity's shared values pursued by the CPC. At the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will pay an official visit to China on November 4, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin announced on Friday. He also became the latest foreign leader set to visit China, as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif  and Samia Suluhu Hassan, president of the United Republic of Tanzania are scheduled to visit the country in the coming days. The Global Times reports Vietnam's communist party chief will pay an official visit to China from October 30 to November 2 at the invitation of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese President. Trong will also be the first foreign leader to visit China after the 20th National Congress of the CPC. Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif will also visit China from November 1, which will also be his first visit to China since taking office in April, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced earlier this week. It demonstrates the special friendship and strategic mutual trust between China and Pakistan, which is also a continuation of the positive momentum of close high-level contacts between the two countries, according to the ministry. Meanwhile, Samia Suluhu Hassan, president of the United Republic of Tanzania, will pay a state visit to China from November 2 to November 4, who will also be the first head of state from Africa to visit China after the CPC National Congress. . In addition to leaders from Asia and Africa, German Chancellor Scholz's trip to China will make him the first G7 leader to travel to the country since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, media reports said.

Gorkha-5 Ward Chair Rana passes away

Gorkha Municipality-5 Ward Chair Khil Bahadur Rana has passed away. He collapsed all of a sudden on Thursday evening and was rushed to the Gorkha Hospital where he was pronounced dead on the arrival, according to CPN-UML Gorkha district committee secretary Kajiram Roka. He was the UML Gorkha district committee member and the central secretariat member of the Youth Association Nepal.

Political leaders receive tika

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli received tika from his sisters on the occasion of Bhai Tika on Thursday. The former prime minister received tika from his sisters—Bishnu Maya Dhakal, Koisalya Koirala and Bishnu Kumari Paudel—at his residence in Balkot this afternoon. Talking to journalists after receiving tika, Oli said that it is necessary to protect and promote festivals. Similarly, Nepal Samajbadi Party Chairman Baburam Bhattarai also received tika from his sisters at his residence on Thursday.  

Pakistani PM to visit China, among first foreign leaders to visit after 20th CPC National Congres

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit China on November 1 upon invitation by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday, Global Times reported. Shehbaz is among the first batch of foreign leaders to visit China after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) which concluded on Saturday, demonstrating the special friendship and strategic mutual trust between China and Pakistan, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin on Wednesday's routine news conference. The visit will also be Shehbaz's first visit to China since taking office in April, a continuation of the positive momentum of close high-level contacts between the two countries, Wang said. During his visit, Shehbaz is scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He will also hold talks with Premier Li Keqiang, and meet with Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Zhanshu. The leaders will have in-depth exchanges of views on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern, and jointly plan and put forward the blueprint for the development of China-Pakistan relations, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Wang noted that China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic partners and ironclad brothers. The two countries have always understood each other, trusted each other and supported each other over the past 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties. In recent years, the two countries have moved forward side by side in the changing world, joining hands to tackle the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and major natural disasters, building the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with high quality, deepening all-round exchanges and cooperation, and carrying out close coordination and cooperation on international and regional affairs, Wang said, according to Global Times. The spokesperson said that China looks forward to working with Pakistan in order to take this visit as an opportunity to further promote all-weather and high-level strategic cooperation, build a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era, and make greater contributions to the maintenance of regional peace and stability and international fairness and justice.