WANG XIAHOU, SECRETARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA SICHUAN PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE: The Honourable Anthony Albanese MP, Prime Minister of Australia. And here, I would like to, together with the Governor, Shi Xiaolin, welcome you to pay a visit to Chengdu city. And first of all, on behalf of the Provincial CPC Committee as well as the Provincial People's Government, together with the Governor, Shi Xiaolin, I would like to express our warmest welcome to you and to your delegation. I understand that your flight just landed in this city, and here we are located in the Chengdu Municipality, which is the capital city, which is the fourth biggest metropolitan area and municipality in terms of population in China. Chengdu city has more than [Inaudible]. For the last fifteen years consecutively, Chengdu city has been ranked as the 12th in the list of the happiest cities to live in consecutively. Chengdu city is also a unique city in China, which has got the biggest number in terms of restaurants, cafe, tea houses, and also the mahjong houses. The city is also known as the city once you come, you always feel hesitated to say goodbye to. And your excellency, i sincerely wish you have a pleasant stay here. So your excellency, I just want to ask how do you feel about this city?
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: Firstly, can I say Secretary Wang, thank you so much for the very warm welcome in all ways that we have had out here in Chengdu. I am the first Australian Prime Minister to visit since Bob Hawke, the Labor Prime Minister came here in 1986. So I'm the second Prime Minister to visit Sichuan and Chengdu. Sichuan Province, I know, has a state-to-state relationship with the state of Victoria in Australia. And I wanted to make sure on this visit to China that I came to Western China, to this province, to see the economic development and the exciting prospects of building our relationship between this state and Australia. This is a relationship with trade, education, tourism, medical technology that we'll look at tomorrow, as well as a relationship of people to people that we see through the familiar Australian Open signs that we saw on the way here for the tennis. The two-way trade between Sichuan and Australia is now worth over $5 billion, which is more than many countries that Australia has trading relationships with. And tomorrow when I visit Cochlear's facility here, it will be a great honour to me to see the benefit of the exchange and cooperation, making a difference to people's lives here in China, just as it's made a difference to people's lives in Australia. Yesterday, I had very productive and constructive meetings with President Xi, with Premier Li and with Chairman Zhao. And it was a way of us once again reaffirming that we've stabilised the relationship and we're developing new relations as well. When I hosted Premier Li in Australia last year for our Annual Leaders' Dialogue, Premier Li graciously agreed to the request that we have made to have two of your ambassadors, known as pandas, visit Adelaide and to replace the pandas who have been such an important, positive feature of building the relationship between Australia and this province in particular. And I thank this province for the arrival of our two newest guests in Adelaide, who have been so well received. I hope that my visit here encourages more Australian visitors to Chengdu, as well as to the province and to Western China. And I look forward to a productive discussion with you today, but conclude by saying thank you once again for the warm welcome.