00:00 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros arrived on Friday in the city of Shenzhen,
00:04 where he began a historic visit to the People's Republic of China.
00:07 In the middle of a heavy downpour, the Venezuelan head of state was received at the international
00:12 airport of Bo, by the Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of China, Meng Fangli,
00:18 the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hua Chunying, and Giuseppe Gioffrera, the
00:23 ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic in China.
00:26 The visit, which aims to strengthen ties of integration and strategic alliances in the
00:30 economic, technological, and commercial area, has been described by the head of state as
00:35 historic.
00:36 Also, Beijing, upon confirming the arrival of the president, assured that the relations
00:41 they maintain are "solid as a rock."