China and Uzbekistan continue to write a New Chapter of Friendly Cooperation
On the afternoon of January 24, President Xi Jinping held talks at the Great Hall of the People with President Mirziyoyev, who was in China for a state visit.
The two heads of state announced that China and Uzbekistan have decided to develop an all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era and promote the construction of a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future from a higher starting point.
"The Central Asian countries are China's most sincere old friends." President Mirziyoyev once said to President Xi Jinping.
President Mirziyoyev visited China twice last year and chose China again for his first overseas trip this year.
In their close interactions, the heads of state of China and Uzbekistan have led the high-level development of bilateral relations and promoted mutual understanding and mutual understanding between the two countries's peoples.
In recent years, the two heads of state have communicated closely on bilateral and multilateral occasions.
In September 2022, during the first overseas trip after the outbreak of the COVID-19, President Xi Jinping went to the famous city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan to attend the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and pay a state visit to Uzbekistan.
During that visit, the two heads of state jointly announced the implementation of a community with a shared future between China and Uzbekistan at the bilateral level, establishing a new positioning for bilateral relations.
In 2023, Mirziyoyev came to China twice to attend the China-Central Asia Summit and the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum,
and had in-depth communication and exchanges with President Xi Jinping on bilateral and regional issues, and worked hard to build a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future.
And inject new impetus into the China-Central Asia community with a shared future.
Under the strategic guidance of heads of state diplomacy, China-Uzbekistan relations have achieved leapfrog development in recent years,
with fruitful cooperation in various fields, which has effectively promoted the development and revitalization of both countries and injected positive energy into maintaining peace and stability in Central Asia and the world.
Aripova, an expert at the Uzbek Presidential Institute of Strategic and Interregional Research, said that the meeting between the leaders of the two countries will elevate bilateral relations to a new level,
continue to consolidate the good-neighborly friendship between the two countries, and open up new prospects for the development of bilateral relations.
The famous Uzbek poet Navoi said: "There is nothing better than living in friendship."
The friendship between China and Uzbekistan has profound historical and cultural origins.
Looking to the future, China and Uzbekistan will continue to move forward hand in hand and write more new chapters of friendship on the road to jointly building a community with a shared future between China and Uzbekistan.