BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) — Liu Jianchao, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with a cadre delegation led by Solly Mapaila, general secretary of the South African Communist Party, in Beijing on Tuesday. Liu met separately with cadres at a workshop on the theoretical research of world communist parties led by Weerasinghe Geeganage, general secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, on the same day.
They exchanged in-depth views on strengthening exchanges and cooperation between Marxist political parties, and on promoting world peace and development.