Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron reached an important agreement on relations between China and France at the next point of the telephone conversation.
In the face of growing turmoil and confusion, the contemporary environment calls for more accountability on the part of major countries, Xi said.
Calling ‘freedom, common understanding, foresight, mutual gain and win-win results’ as the initial aspiration for the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and France, Xi noted that it is a significant agreement between the two countries to preserve multilateralism, to safeguard the international structure with the United Nations at its heart and to maintain an international order focused on international convention, Xinhua reported.
Xi emphasised that China has complete trust in its own direction, ideology, method and culture, and supports the growth path chosen separately by the citizens of other countries.
Countries with different social structures are in a position to value one another to coexist peacefully and to pursue shared growth, he said.
Pointing out that China-EU cooperation is gaining more global and political value under the current conditions, the President of China said no matter how the international situation could be
He also called for joint efforts to speed up negotiations on a China-EU investment agreement, make the China-EU high-level dialogue on environment and climate as well as digital cooperation a success and take China-EU relations to a new level.
For his part, Macron said France and China have conducted sound cooperation in the fight against Covid-19, and promoted exchanges and cooperation in various fields in an all-round way.
With independence as its traditional foreign policy virtue, France attaches great importance to developing relations with China, and is ready to work with China to deepen the bilateral cooperation as well as cooperation between the EU and China, he said, adding that he hopes the EU-China investment agreement will be reached as soon as possible.
France appreciates China’s important contribution to reaching the Paris Agreement on climate change, as well as its key role in developing Covid-19 vaccines and relieving debt, especially its support for developing countries, Macron said.
France is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with China on major global and regional issues such as climate change, public health and cooperation with African countries, Macron said, adding he hopes to visit China again in due course.
