EIJING, Dec. 18 -- Minister Wang Jiarui of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee met here today with a delegation of the Office of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) led by the Office Director and the Party's Central Committee Member Khampheuy Panemalaythong.

Wang said the family-member kind of frequent and in-depth exchanges between the CPC and the LPRP on various questions of shared interest are conducive not only for furthering party-to-party friendship and state-to-state relations, but also for their respective endeavor in party-building and national development.

Agreeing with Wang's positive assessment of the bilateral relations, Khampheuy said the Lao side is keen to study and learn from the success story of the CPC in multiple fields of party-building. The LPRP is looking forward to a stronger relation of friendly exchanges with the CPC so that the two brotherly countries are even closer to each other, said Khampheuy.