Yu Weiguo, party chief of Fujian province, met a visiting Maldives delegation headed by the country's Tourism Minister Moosa Zameer in Fuzhou, capital city of Fujian province, on Tuesday.

Yu extended a warm welcome to the delegation and hoped both sides could further strengthen cooperation so as to implement the consensus reached between the two countries'top leaders.

In 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a State visit to the Maldives, Yu said, during which the two countries reached important agreement in building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

He noted that the Maldives, a key node along the Maritime Silk Road, is an active participant of the Belt and Road Initiative and that Fujian is striving to gain a core role in the road's construction.

The two parties could enhance in-depth collaboration in the fields such as finance, trade, culture, education and tourism, apply their complementary strengths, and achieve a win-win result, Yu added.

For the Maldives's part, Zameer said the Maldives has a long history of friendly exchanges with China, adding that Fujian's enchanting views and vibrant economic growth momentum impressed him.

The Maldives, Zammer said, intends to draw experiences from Fujian in terms of ecological construction and Party building, promote bilateral cooperation and exchanges in more fields and offer services of higher standards to Fujian tourists travelling to the island country.

First proposed in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative, comprising the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, is a national key project aiming at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along ancient trade routes.