Zhang Shengmin meets with Russian Defense Minister

China News Service, Beijing, November 3rd. Zhang Shengmin, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with visiting Russian Defense Minister Belousov at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on the 3rd.

Zhang Shengmin said that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the China-Russia strategic partnership of coordination and the 25th anniversary of the signing of the China-Russia Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation. Under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Putin, China-Russia relations have entered a new stage of more fruitful and faster development, playing a constructive role in maintaining global strategic stability and improving global governance. In recent years, the military-to-military relations between China and Russia have kept pace with the improvement and upgrading of relations between the two countries, and have achieved fruitful results in areas such as high-level exchanges and joint exercises and training. We are willing to work with Russia to thoroughly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, continue to strengthen strategic communication, enhance mutual trust in the military field, improve cooperation mechanisms, explore and create more new highlights of cooperation with the characteristics of the times, better safeguard our respective national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and effectively safeguard world and regional peace and stability.

Belousov said that in accordance with the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination between Russia and China in the new era has developed in depth and reached an unprecedented high level, which is crucial to the peace, stability, prosperity and development of both countries and the world. At present, the international security situation, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, is complex and volatile. Russia appreciates and supports China's active role in major international and regional affairs. Russia is willing to continue to work closely with China, strengthen strategic consultations, firmly support each other, expand practical cooperation in military education, scientific and technological innovation and other fields, and promote the development of relations between the two countries and the two militaries to achieve more results.