On the morning of February 5, 2025, President Xi Jinping held talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, who is on a state visit to China.
Xi Jinping pointed out that linked by mountains and rivers, China and Kyrgyzstan are good neighbors, good friends and good partners enjoying close people-to-people ties. Over the years, China-Kyrgyzstan relations have realized leapfrog growth and reached the new height of a comprehensive strategic partnership for a new era. The two sides have continuously consolidated political mutual trust and seen fruitful results from cooperation in various fields, which increasingly strengthened the social and popular foundation for building a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future. China supports Kyrgyzstan in pursuing a development path suited to its national conditions, and is ready to work with Kyrgyzstan to further synergize development strategies, expand sharing of governance experience, advance all-round mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly safeguard the common interests of the two countries, and promote more substantive progress in building a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the two sides should continue to explore new ideas, focus on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation. China is willing to continue to expand economic, trade and investment cooperation, import more quality goods from Kyrgyzstan, support more Chinese enterprises to invest and do business in Kyrgyzstan, and hope that Kyrgyzstan will earnestly protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese investors. Xi Jinping called on the two countries to comprehensively enhance connectivity, and build the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway with high standards and high quality, while renovating and modernizing existing ports and opening more passenger and freight flights to further facilitate the flow of people and goods between the two countries. The two sides should expand cooperation in cross-border e-commerce, big data, artificial intelligence and other new quality productive forces to create fresh growth drivers. Xi Jinping urged the two countries to ensure the sound operation of the Chinese Culture Center, Luban Workshop and Confucius Institute, strengthen exchanges at the sub-national level, and cultivate more forces dedicated to China-Kyrgyzstan friendship. China is ready to work closely with Kyrgyzstan to upgrade cooperation under the China-Central Asia mechanism, make the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) more substantive and stronger, safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core, implement the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative, and jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Sadyr Japarov said that it was a great pleasure for him to visit China at the beginning of the New Year and extended his best Chinese New Year wishes to President Xi Jinping and the Chinese people, and wished China success in hosting the 9th Asian Winter Games. Under President Xi Jinping's leadership, China has made remarkable achievements on the journey of realizing the two centenary goals, shared the fruits of development with other countries, and carried forward the fine traditional Chinese culture while moving toward modernization, setting an example for the world. Kyrgyzstan is willing to learn from China's successful experience. Kyrgyzstan and China enjoy a long history of friendly exchanges. Noting that bilateral relations have been elevated to a new level in recent years, he said China is a reliable friend and partner of Kyrgyzstan. Close cooperation between various departments and at the sub-national level has yielded fruitful results. Kyrgyzstan is willing to continue to firmly support China on the Taiwan question and issues related to Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Kyrgyzstan is ready to work with China to achieve more results in building a Kyrgyzstan-China community with a shared future, pursue high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, ensure the success in building the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway as the "silk road on steel rail", and advance cooperation in industry, investment, trade, transportation, e-commerce, education, and other areas. In the face of complex changes in the international and regional situations, Kyrgyzstan is ready to work closely with China to push for greater development of the SCO and the China-Central Asia mechanism, actively implement the three global initiatives, and jointly safeguard regional and world peace and stability.
Following the talks, the two heads of state jointly signed the Joint Statement between the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic on Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership for a New Era, and witnessed the signing of the cooperation plan for the Belt and Road Initiative as well as a number of cooperation documents in the fields of diplomacy, economy, trade and agriculture.
Prior to the talks, Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan held a welcome ceremony for Sadyr Japarov and his wife Aigul Japarova at the North Hall of the Great Hall of the People.
A 21-gun salute was fired at Tian'anmen Square. The guard of honor lined up in salutation. As the two heads of state stepped onto the stand, the military band played the national anthems of China and Kyrgyzstan. Accompanied by Xi Jinping, Sadyr Japarov reviewed the honor guard of the People's Liberation Army and watched the march-past.
At noon on the same day, Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan held a welcome banquet for Sadyr Japarov and his wife at the Golden Hall of the Great Hall of the People.
Wang Yi was present at the above events.
