China's Foreign Ministry talks about the Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing's visit to Russia
發佈日期: 2025-05-16 22:41
TVB News
At the invitation of Russia, Vice Premier of the State Council Zhang Guoqing will visit Russia from next Monday to Thursday, for the Fifth Meeting of the Yangtze-Volga Cooperation Council and the Chairpersons' Meeting of the China-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Cooperation and Development of Northeast China and the Far East and Baikal Region of Russia.
Comments by Lin Jian, spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Voice of translator).
Under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Russia relations have been moving forward on a high level and subnational cooperation has been advancing with wider scope and higher quality.
The Yangtze-Volga Cooperation Council and the Intergovernmental Commission on the Northeast Far East cooperation as two major subnational cooperation mechanisms between China and Russia, since their establishment have been operating with high efficiency, and played an important role in promoting economic and trade cooperation as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges between relevant regions of China and Russia in a coordinated manner.
President Xi Jinping's trip to Russia earlier this month was a full success where he attended the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War and together with President Putin, amid top-level design and strategic planning for the development of China-Russia relations and cooperation in various fields.
Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing's upcoming trip to Russia to attend relevant institutional events is aimed at implementing the important common understandings reached between the two Presidents, taking stock of bilateral cooperation progress and charting the course for future priority work and cooperation.
We believe that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of states, and with the joint efforts of both sides, subnational cooperation between China and Russia will continue to grow with vigor and vitality and inject more impetus into our effort of enriching.
The bilateral relationship delivering more benefits to the two peoples and boosting our respective development and revitalisation.
