China and nine Caribbean countries Monday vowed to step up pragmatic cooperation during the fourth consultation between the foreign ministries of the two sides.

During the consultation held Monday in Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, they spoke highly of the development of friendship and cooperative relations over recent years between China and nine Caribbean countries -- Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica -- which have diplomatic ties with China.

The two sides also reached broad consensus on boosting pragmatic cooperation in such fields as politics, economy, culture, education and global affairs.

The consultation was jointly presided over by China's Vice Foreign Minister Li Jinzhang and Brent Symonette, Bahamian deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs.

A joint press communique was issued after the consultation.

Li started his visit to the Bahamas on Sunday. During his visit, he also met with Bahamian Governor-General Arthur Alexander Foulkes and Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.