2015年CRI Ambassador: Xi's Visit to UK Heralds a ＂Golden Decade＂ for Bilateral Relation（在线收听）

"The visit by the President of China and Madame Peng Liyuan to the United Kingdom will be a golden event of this golden year. We hope also it will herald a golden decade in UK-China relation building on the comprehensive strategic partnership that we have enjoyed with China for the last decade."

UK ambassador Barbara Woodward addressing the Chinese media on Friday ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's trip to the UK this coming week.

Like most officials from both sides, Woodward has been using the term "golden" to describe both the President's forthcoming trip, as well as the relationship between the two countries.

The term is somewhat apt, as Woodward says she believes economics will be high on the agenda.

"Because we will be able to establish the background for our future economic cooperation. For example, we have established London as the leading hub for the internationalization of RMB. We very much hope that with the issue of severing bond during the visit, that position will be further consolidated."

Beyond economics, Woodward says the UK-side would also like to address a number of other issues during Xi Jinping's time in Britain.

"We look at the challenge of anti-microbial resistance, which if it gains a hold would mean that all the modern medicine could be wiped out. We want to look ahead to the Conference of Parties in Paris in November and December and consider how we can work together on climate change."

The UK ambassador also says inter-governmental relations, trade and people-to-people exchanges are also going to be addressed, describing these three areas as a 3-legged cauldron, or "Ding" in Chinese.

"We now have three really strong legs in our bilateral relationship and I can see all three of them should continue to grow, so our relationship gets stronger while remaining stable."

Chinese President Xi Jinping's time in the UK will be the first official state-visit by a Chinese leader to the country in a decade.

For CRI, I am XYee.