Speaker of the House of Representatives Agni Prasad Sapkota held a virtual meeting with Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China Li Zhanshu on Friday.

During the meeting, the two sides exchanged in-depth views on various aspects of Nepal-China relations and underscored the need to have frequent exchanges of high-level visits between the parliaments of two countries, read a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On the occasion, Speaker Sapkota and Chairman Li extended invitations to visit each other’s countries at mutually convenient time in future.

Senior officials of the Federal Parliament Secretariat and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Nepali side and Chairpersons of various committees of National People's Congress and Vice Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Chinese side were also present during the virtual meeting.