Stronger RP-China Ties: Chinese officials meet with Philippine House Speaker Prospero Nograles

Speaker Prospero Nograles, (left), warmly receives a visiting delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, People’s Republic of China during a courtesy call on the Speaker at his Batasan office on September 2, 2009. The Speaker is shown shaking hands with Hon. Jiang Futang, delegation head, member of the Standing Committee of the NPC and Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the NPC, as H. E. Liu Jianchao appreciatively listens. Present were members of the Chinese delegation, including Hon Qi Xuchun who is also a member of the NPC Standing Committee and a Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NPC, and Hon Xu Genchu, member of the said committee.