President Hu Jintao recently sent a congratulatory message to Queen Beatrix on the Queen’s Day of the Netherlands, extending warm greetings and best wishes to the Queen, the Dutch government and people. He said in the message that at present China-the Netherlands relations develop steadily and political, economic, trade and cultural cooperation is fruitful. He believes the bilateral friendly and cooperative relations will continue to grow with the joint efforts of both sides.

Queen’s Day is a national holiday of the Netherlands. Queen Beatrix was born on January 31, 1938. Since she was crowned in 1980, Queen’s Day has still been celebrated on April 30th which is her mother Queen Juliana’s birthday as a tribute to her mother.