Minister Roshan Khanal Photo: Courtesy of the Embassy of Nepal in China

Editor's Note: 

With the "two sessions" underway in Beijing this week, Global Times reporter Dong Feng has exclusively interviewed some ambassadors to China to pursue their thoughts on the meeting. From 2026, China will start to implement the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) for economic and social development. Focusing on the most noteworthy development opportunities to be unleashed from China's 15th Five-Year Plan, the envoys share their perspectives for bilateral cooperation.

Minister Roshan Khanal of the Embassy of Nepal in China told the Global Times that she was delighted to witness the process of the two sessions. She said that the 15th Five-Year Plan is very important in terms of mapping out China's development strategies, and that investment and connectivity are the key areas for enhancing bilateral cooperation. 

China's development strategies will work as the bridge to advancing China towards socialist modernization by 2035. 

"As China has a significant contribution in global economic growth, China's performance in five years in multiple fronts will play an important role for the world economy, global trade, development of technologies and apparently in the global world order," Khanal added. 

From her observation, "being a close neighbor, Nepal is willing to benefit from the China's achievement and progress towards high-quality development and Chinese modernization guided by science, technology and innovation."

China's policy of opening up and encouraging two-way investment is significant for us as we strive to attract Chinese investment, she added. 

Khanal said that China has laid out plans to open wider to the outside world, particularly in the service sectors, develop national comprehensive demonstration zones for promoting greater openness, conclude regional and bilateral trade agreements. "We aspire to advance cooperation through the overarching multidimensional connectivity," Khanal said.