Chinese premier to visit Australia on Saturday
Jun 11, 2024
China’s Premier Li Qiang will visit Australia on Saturday
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — China’s Premier Li Qiang will visit Australia later this week, officials said Tuesday, in a further indication that strained bilateral relations are improving.
Li’s visit will extend from Saturday to Tuesday, and will be the first by a Chinese premier to Australia since 2017, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
Albanese and Li will hold an annual leaders’ meeting at Parliament House in the Australian capital Canberra during the visit, an Australian government statement said.
Li, the second most powerful official in China's leadership, will also visit the Australian cities of Adelaide and Perth.
Li’s visit follows
Albanese’s visit to Beijing
in November last year, where leaders agreed to resume key bilateral dialogues and to further several areas of cooperation.China imposed a series of official and unofficial trade barriers that cost Australian exporters up to 20 billion Australian dollars ($13 billion) a year after Australia’s previous government demanded an international inquiry into the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most of those barriers have been removed since Albanese’s government was elected in 2022.
“Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Australia is an important opportunity to engage directly on key issues for both our nations,” Albanese said in a statement.
“Australia continues to pursue a stable and direct relationship with China, with dialogue at its core," Albanese added.
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