Held talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed

At noon on December 8 local time, President Xi Jinping held talks with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammad at the Royal Palace in Riyadh. Photo by Yue Yuewei, reporter of Xinhua News Agency

Riyadh, December 8 (Reporters Huang Peizhao, Yan Huan) At noon local time on December 8, President Xi Jinping held talks with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed at the Riyadh Palace.

Mohammed first warmly welcomed President Xi Jinping's visit on behalf of King Salman, and sincerely congratulated President Xi Jinping on the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping on his re-election as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

President Xi Jinping pointed out that Saudi Arabia is an important member of the Arab world and the Islamic world, an important independent force in a multipolar world, and an important strategic partner of China in the Middle East. In recent years, Sino—Saudi Arabia relations have maintained a high level of development. The current international and regional situation has evolved profoundly and complexly, and the strategic and overall nature of Sino—Saudi Arabia relations have become more prominent. China puts the development of relations with Saudi Arabia in the priority direction of the overall diplomatic situation, especially in the Middle East. It is willing to work hand in hand with the Saudi Arabia on the road of national rejuvenation, strengthen the docking of development strategies, deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields, enhance communication and coordination in international and regional affairs, and promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and the country. Great development.

President Xi Jinping stressed that China firmly supports Saudi Arabia in safeguarding national sovereignty, security and stability, and supports Saudi Arabia to continue to follow a development path in line with its national conditions. China supports a series of major development initiatives such as Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030" and "Green Middle East", and is willing to actively participate in the industrialization process of Saudi Arabia and help Saudi economic diversification. The two sides should implement the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030, so as to promote more results in cooperation between the two countries in various fields. China is willing to strengthen energy policy communication and coordination with Saudi Arabia, expand the scale of crude oil trade, strengthen exploration and development cooperation, and implement large-scale energy cooperation projects such as Fujian Gurethylene. China is willing to deepen cooperation with Saudi Arabia in production capacity and infrastructure construction, promote the construction of  Sino—Saudi Arabia industrial agglomeration areas and major infrastructure projects, improve the level of trade, investment and financial cooperation, expand cooperation in e-commerce, digital economy, clean energy, high-tech, aerospace research and other fields, and strengthen law enforcement security, anti-terrorism and go. Extreme cooperation. Not long ago, more than 100 Saudi Chinese learners wrote to me in Chinese to express their love for Chinese. I was very happy. China is willing to work with the Saudi side to promote more results in Chinese education cooperation between the two countries. China agreed to list Saudi Arabia as an outbound tourist destination for Chinese citizens to expand personnel exchanges and cultural exchanges between the two sides.

President Xi Jinping pointed out that China supports the Saudi side to play a greater role in international and regional affairs, and is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with the Saudi side on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations and the Group of 20. Under the current situation, the convening of the first China-Arab Summit and the China-Gulf Arab Cooperation Council Summit is of special significance and will play a strategic leading role in Sino—Saudi Arabia relations and Sino—Saudi Arabia relations in the coming period. China looks forward to working with the Saudi Arabian side and Arab countries to make the two summits a landmark event in the history of the development of China-Arab relations and China-Sea relations, and promote China-Arab relations and China-Arab relations to a new level.

Mohammed said that Saudi Arabia-China relations are very close and friendly, and Saudi Arabia is China's comprehensive strategic partner in the Middle East. China's economy remains vigorous, and the Shafang is also striving to realize the "Vision 2030". Saudi Arabia looks forward to increasing mutual support with China and jointly committing to raising the comprehensive strategic partnership between Sino—Saudi Arabia to a higher level. It is believed that President Xi Jinping's visit will definitely become an important milestone in the history of relations between Sino—Saudi Arabia and promote cooperation in various fields. Make more results to better benefit the people of Saudi China and better realize the common development and prosperity of the two countries. The Saudi Arabia side firmly supports the one-China principle, firmly supports China in safeguarding its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, firmly supports China's measures and efforts to de-extremism, and resolutely opposes any external interference in China's internal affairs in the name of human rights. The Saudi Arabia is willing to continue to actively build the Belt and Road Initiative with China, expand trade and mutual investment. It welcomes more Chinese enterprises to actively participate in the industrialization process of Saudi Arabia, participate in the construction of major infrastructure and energy projects in Saudi Arabia, and strengthen cooperation in automobile, science and technology, chemical industry, mining and other fields. Thanks to China for supporting Saudi Arabia's "Green Middle East" initiative, the Saudi Arabia is willing to strengthen cooperation with China in clean energy, green development and other fields, and expand personnel exchanges and cultural exchanges. We hope that China will continue to support Saudi Arabia in enhancing its Chinese education ability. Thank China for supporting Saudi Arabia to become a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. We are willing to strengthen communication and coordination with China within multilateral frameworks such as the Group of Twenty and BRICS countries, cooperate to meet the challenges of energy security, food security and climate change, and conduct close dialogue and cooperation on major regional hotspot issues to maintain regional peace, security and stability. It is determined to contribute to the realization of common regional security. Sha Fang is willing to play an active role in promoting the further development of Arab-China relations and Sino—Saudi Arabia relations. I am full of confidence in the prospects of Saudi-China relations.

The two sides agreed to upgrade the leadership level of the Sino—Saudi Arabia High-level Joint Commission to the Prime Minister level.

The leaders of the two countries jointly attended the text exchange ceremony of cooperation documents in the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, justice, education, hydrogen energy, investment, housing and other fields.

The two sides issued the Joint Statement of the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

After the talks, Xi Jinping attended the welcome banquet held by Muhammad on behalf of King Salman.

Ding Xuexiang, Wang Yi, He Lifeng and others participated in the above activities.