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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and visiting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed in Beijing on Thursday that the two countries should develop a long-term and stable comprehensive strategic partnership.
During the meeting, Xi Jinping said that today, when the world is experiencing both changes and turbulence, China and the United Kingdom, as permanent members of the UN Security Council and two of the world's largest economies, should strengthen dialogue and cooperation, which is necessary for maintaining world peace and stability, as well as for ensuring economic development and people's well-being in both countries.
Xi Jinping stressed the need to look at history from a broader perspective, calling on both countries to overcome differences and maintain mutual respect to turn the promising potential of cooperation into remarkable achievements, open up new horizons for China-UK relations and cooperation, and benefit the peoples of the two countries and the rest of the world.
China is committed to peaceful development, has never started a war, and has never occupied an inch of foreign land, Xi Jinping emphasized.
China will never pose a threat to other countries, no matter how the country grows and develops, Xi Jinping told Keir Starmer, who is in Beijing on a four-day official visit, the first by a British prime minister in eight years.
Xi Jinping said that the essence of trade and economic cooperation between China and the UK is mutual benefit and win-win, so both countries should expand mutually beneficial cooperation in education, healthcare, finance and the service industry.
He also called on both sides to conduct joint research and industrial transformation in artificial intelligence, life sciences, new energy and low-carbon technologies, among others, to achieve common development and prosperity.
"We hope the British side will provide a fair, equal and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese enterprises," Xi said, adding that the two sides should strengthen people-to-people ties and continue to promote people-to-people exchanges.
He expressed hope that government officials, parliamentarians and representatives of various sectors of the public in the UK regions would visit China more frequently and thus form a comprehensive, objective and well-founded understanding of China.
According to him, China is actively considering the possibility of unilaterally exempting the visa requirements for the British.
Noting that the international order has been undergoing serious upheavals for some time, Xi Jinping said that international law is only truly effective if all countries adhere to it. Moreover, major countries must play a leading role in this regard, otherwise the world risks returning to the law of the jungle.
Xi Jinping said that China and the UK, as advocates of multilateralism and free trade, should jointly uphold and practice genuine multilateralism and promote the building of a more just and rational global governance system so as to build an equitable and orderly multipolar world and realize an inclusive and inclusive globalization. -0-
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