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BEIJING, March 19-- French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Thursday that France will learn from China's experience in fighting COVID-19 in a phone conversation with Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Le Drian highly appreciated China's basic victory in the battle against the coronavirus, sincerely thanked China for its provision of medical supplies to France and making allocations to meet France's need for the procurement of medical supplies, and positively evaluated the anti-epidemic cooperation between the two countries. The epidemic situation in France is on the rise, he said, adding that his country is willing to learn from China's experience in preventing and containing the spread of the coronavirus and adopt strong and effective measures so as to win the fight against the epidemic at an early date. For his part, Wang said that the world is seeing the outbreaks in multi points, and France is also facing the challenge of the epidemic, over which China extended sincere sympathies. Wang expressed his belief that under the leadership of President Emmanuel Macron, France will definitely win the battle against the virus in the end. China and France boast a tradition of supporting one another, Wang noted, adding that China will never forget the valuable support and help of France to the Chinese people in combating the coronavirus. Out of the China-France friendship, China has overcomed difficulties to send a batch of medical supplies to France, Wand said. On the containers of these medical supplies wrote in Chinese "Though far away from each other, the friendship between China and France is more solid than gold and stone," which vividly illustrated the friendship of sharing weal and woe and helping each other between the two peoples, he added. | 
