On April 13, 2006, Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz met in the Prime Minister's Palace with visiting Chinese Vice Premier of the State Council Hui Liangyu.

Hui first conveyed the cordial greetings from Premier Wen Jiabao to Marcinkiewicz. He said that in recent years bilateral relations have witnessed sound development momentum. In 2004 when Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Poland, both sides decided to upgrade bilateral relations to a friendly cooperative partnership. Spurred on by sound political relations, bilateral cooperation in all areas has scored satisfactory achievements. Last year Poland became China's largest trading partner in Central-Eastern Europe. China attaches great importance to developing relations with Poland and respects the development road independently chosen by Polish people themselves. China would like to work with Poland to continue strengthening bilateral pragmatic cooperation in various fields.

Hui said that both China and Poland are big agricultural countries and agriculture holds an important status in economic and social development of both sides. Each of the two countries has its strong points in the areas of agricultural scientific research, cultivation techniques, agricultural product processing, agricultural trade and fishery and there is huge potential for their strengthened cooperation

Marcinkiewicz extended warm welcome for Hui's visit. He said that high-level exchanges between both sides have further promoted development of bilateral relations. Poland admires China's rapid economic growth and its achievements. To strengthen bilateral economic and trade cooperation is of immense benefit to economic development of both sides. Poland would like to work with China to actively discuss new areas for bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation and especially push for cooperation between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the two countries.

Following the meeting, Marcinkiewicz and Hui jointly met with businessmen from the two countries.

On the same day, Hui held talks with Polish Deputy Prime Minister Zyta Gilowska. Both sides exchanged in-depth views on furthering bilateral relations, as well as cooperation in the areas of economy & trade, humanities and agriculture.

Following the talks, Hui and Gilowska attended the signing ceremony of the Letter of Intent on Establishing China-Poland Center for Agricultural Science and Technology between the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Poland.