Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, held talks with Mongolian Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, on Saturday.
Noting that China and Mongolia are friendly neighbors, Wang said that China attaches high importance to ties with Mongolia in its neighborhood diplomacy, and actively promotes good-neighborliness and friendly cooperation between the two countries.
Wang said that China is willing to continue to be a trustworthy and reliable partner to Mongolia and to provide sustainable support for Mongolia's development and revitalization.
Noting the strong complementarity between the two economies, Wang said greater alignment of development strategies would help expand cooperation and create new growth opportunities. China is willing to work with Mongolia to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, expand trade and economic ties, and achieve more concrete outcomes, Wang said.
Wang said China supports Mongolia in continuing to make positive contributions to regional peace and development, adding that China has consistently advocated and practiced multilateralism, and supports the United Nations in playing a central and leading role in international affairs.
For her part, Battsetseg said developing relations with neighboring countries, especially China, has always been a priority in Mongolia's foreign policy.
The Mongolian side firmly adheres to the one-China principle and supports China's efforts to safeguard its territorial sovereignty and achieve national reunification, Battsetseg said.
She said closer cooperation is needed amid growing global uncertainty and expressed Mongolia's interest in strengthening the alignment of development strategies with China, expanding trade and investment, enhancing connectivity, and deepening cooperation in areas such as critical minerals and ecological governance.
After the talks, the two sides signed documents on cooperation between the foreign ministries of the two countries.
They also met the press.
Chinese FM holds talks with Mongolian counterpart
Chinese FM holds talks with Mongolian counterpart
Top political advisor Wang Huning has called for high-quality construction of the demonstration zone for integrated development across the Taiwan Strait and urged greater progress in advancing such integration during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030).
Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, made the remarks on Saturday in Xiamen, a city in east China's Fujian Province, at a meeting on advancing the demonstration zone's development.
He said the 15th Five-Year Plan period will bring broad opportunities and prospects for deepening cross-Strait integrated development and for promoting the development of the demonstration zone.
Wang called for supporting Fujian in exploring new mechanisms, pathways and models for cross-Strait integrated development, and for promoting higher-quality, deeper and broader integration in cross-Strait integrated development.
He stressed the need to implement the requirements of the 15th Five-Year Plan in developing the demonstration zone and to ensure high-quality development throughout the process.
Focusing on key tasks in building the demonstration zone, efforts should be made to boost policy and institutional innovation, and to let the zone take the lead in piloting new measures and generating replicable experience, Wang said.
He also called for improving policies and measures to facilitate cross-Strait exchanges and cooperation, enhancing the business environment, strengthening industrial cooperation, and expanding the benefits and sense of gain for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwan-funded enterprises.
Wang urged closer people-to-people and cultural exchanges across the Strait, saying that more efforts should be made to strengthen Taiwan compatriots' sense of identification with the Chinese nation, Chinese culture and the motherland.
He also called for expanding channels for Taiwan youth to pursue development on the mainland.
On Sunday morning, Wang also conducted an inspection tour in Xiamen, reviewing work on cross-Strait integrated development, as well as the provision of more convenient and intelligent services for Taiwan compatriots, and efforts to promote exchanges and cooperation among young people from both sides of the Strait.
Top political advisor urges solid progress in cross-Strait integrated development
