On the night of April 19, Secretary-General Ni Jian was invited to attend a reception at the German Embassy in Beijing on the occasion of Mme. Hannelore Kraft’s visit to China, who is the governor of Nordrhein-Westfalen of Germany. Mme. Kraft mentioned at the reception that in recent years, Nordrhein-Westfalen had frequent exchanges with China, and she expected deepened cooperation with China in the process of building the “Silk Road Economic Belt”.