Parliamentary delegation off to China

A team of Federal Parliament members left for Beijing on a 10-day visit to China on Tuesday. 

The 20-member delegation under CPN (Maoist Centre) Chief Whip Hitraj Pandey comprises five lawmakers each from the Nepali Congress, CPN (UML) and the Maoist Centre, and one each from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) and the CPN (Unified Socialist). 

The delegates are Yub Raj Sharma, Ramnath  Adhikari, Ain Bahadur Shahi, Saraswoti Bajimaya and Kusum Devi Thapa from the NC, Damodar Bairagi, Manbir Rai, Nirmala Koirala, Rukmini Rana Baraili and Bhagawati Neupane from the UML, and Chief Whip Pandey, Jaga Prasad Sharma and Narayani Sharma from the Maoist Centre.   

RSP Chief Whip Santosh Pariyar, Anisha Nepali of RPP, Prakash Adhikari of JSP and Unified Socialist Chief Whip Metmani Chaudhary are other delegation members. 

The purpose of the visit to the northern neighbor is to participate in an event to be organized by the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce, China. The team is scheduled to visit Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu province, and Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, according to the Federal Parliament Secretariat.