China has agreed to refurbish the Liberian Capitol that suffered an arson assault final December, following an enchantment by Senate Professional-Tempore, Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence.
Beijing, China, October 17, 2025 – The Individuals’s Republic of China is contemplating a request made to renovate the rotunda and different areas of the Capitol Constructing devastated by hearth on 18th December 2024.
The President Professional-Tempore of the Liberian Senate, Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, appealed throughout a gathering with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress (NPC), Mr. Zhao Leji, on the Nice Corridor of the Individuals in Beijing on Wednesday, fifteenth October 2025.
Mr. Zhao, additionally a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, responded favourably to the enchantment and directed China’s Vice International Minister to coordinate with the Ambassadors of each China and Liberia to make sure the technical formalities are labored out via the standard diplomatic channels.
Through the assembly, Senator Karnga-Lawrence hoped that some mechanism may very well be organized to help within the capability constructing of the employees of the Liberian Legislature via specialised short-term coaching, seminars, and even scholarships.
Mr. Zhao, dedicated to making sure that preparations will be made for the coaching of legislators and employees on the Nationwide Legislature to pursue short-term coaching in China.
He additionally gladly accepted an invite to go to Liberia quickly, as soon as the required preparations are finalized via diplomatic channels, primarily based on an invite prolonged to him by Senator Karnga-Lawrence on behalf of the 55th Legislature.
The President Professional-Tempore, on the head of a two-member legislative delegation, was in Beijing on the invitation of the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress to take part within the 2025 World Leaders Assembly on Girls, co-hosted by China and UN Girls. Montserrado County District #1 Consultant, Rugie Yatu Barry, shaped a part of the delegation.
Through the assembly, she used the chance to resume to the Chinese language authorities the excessive precedence the Authorities of Liberia attaches to the enhancement of the cordial relations that exist between each international locations, in addition to the cooperation and the mutual belief that proceed to develop from energy to energy.
This present go to to China is an additional manifestation of the energy of our rising relationship and cooperation that’s equally creating between the Liberia Nationwide Legislature and the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress, Senator Karnga-Lawrence emphasised.
She reiterated Liberia’s preparedness to work carefully with the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress to make sure that there may be an final result that not solely represents the spirit and imaginative and prescient of each Presidents Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. and Xi Jinping, however one that may strengthen the engagements between members of the Nationwide Individuals’s Congress and members of the Liberian Legislature that may improve their cooperation resulting in win-win.
Senator Karnga-Lawrence, once more, reaffirmed Liberia’s dedication to the One China Coverage and reemphasized the nation’s perception within the rules of non-interference within the inside affairs of different international locations.
Moreover, the Authorities of Liberia totally helps the efforts of the Chinese language Authorities to proceed to work in constructing this neighborhood with a shared future for mankind, an idea envisioned by President Xi Jinping, as a international coverage purpose, she careworn.
In his response, Mr. Zhao acknowledged that below President Boakai’s administration, political mutual belief continues to deepen and pragmatic cooperation throughout varied fields have yielded fruitful outcomes. He emphasised China’s dedication.
China helps President Boakai authorities technique and stands able to work with Liberia to consolidate the great growth momentum of our bilateral relations, he careworn; including, we are going to proceed to assist one another on points regarding our core pursuits and problems with main concern.
He indicated that China is able to work with Liberia to ship on the essential consensus of each Heads of State and the measures from the 2024 Discussion board on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Summit, promote higher growth of China-Liberia relations; present extra advantages to each peoples in order to contribute to the all-weather China-Africa neighborhood with a shared future.
In one other growth, the President Professional-Tempore of the Liberian Senate, accompanied by Liberia’s Ambassador to China, H.E. Dudley McKinley Thomas, paid a quick courtesy name on the top of the China Worldwide Improvement Cooperation Company (CIDCA), Mr. Chen Xiaodong, on Thursday, sixteenth October 2025.
In welcoming the Liberian delegation to his workplaces, Mr. Chen highlighted the cordial relations subsisting between the 2 international locations. He briefed them on ongoing growth actions undertaken by his company in Liberia.
He highlighted a number of key initiatives, together with the graduation of two overhead bridges alongside Tubman Boulevard, the continuing development of the brand new Liberian Broadcasting System services, the institution of the Nationwide Prognosis and Remedy Laboratory, and the latest supply of 13 million grains of meals help to Liberia. China has additionally agreed to offer agricultural machines to Liberia, in addition to automobiles that will likely be donated to the federal government.
For her half, Senator Karnga-Lawrence thanked CIDCA for the great work they’re doing in Liberia and mentioned her go to there was to indicate appreciation. She highlighted, with delight, the latest development of the 2 overhead bridges alongside Tubman Boulevard. Enhancing by Jonathan Browne
