{"id":44892,"date":"2026-03-28T12:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44892"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:11:24","slug":"premier-li-congratulates-pm-shah-pledges-stronger-bilateral-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/premier-li-congratulates-pm-shah-pledges-stronger-bilateral-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier Li Congratulates PM Shah, Pledges Stronger Bilateral Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, March 28: Premier of China, Li Qiang, has congratulated Balendra Shah on his appointment as the Prime Minister of Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>In a congratulatory message, Premier Li said that China and Nepal are traditional neighboring countries linked by mountains and rivers, enjoying a long-standing friendship. He noted that over the 71 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have developed bilateral ties guided by the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier of China has also expressed his country&#8217;s firm support for Nepal\u2019s new government in its governance efforts and reiterated continued backing for Nepal\u2019s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, according to the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Li also said he is ready to work closely with Prime Minister Shah to jointly promote the Belt and Road Initiative and expand high-level cooperation across various sectors. Furthermore, he reaffirmed China\u2019s commitment to strengthening the China-Nepal friendly strategic cooperative partnership for development and prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 28: Premier of China, Li Qiang, has congratulated Balendra Shah on his appointment as the Prime Minister of Nepal. In a congratulatory message, Premier Li said that China and Nepal are traditional neighboring countries linked by mountains and rivers, enjoying a long-standing friendship. He noted that over the 71 years since the establishment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44894,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44892\/revisions\/44894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}