The Development Course of Sino-Russian Relations

Sino-Russian relations are currently in the best period of historical development.

(1) The two countries have established a perfect mechanism for regular high-level meetings and other exchanges and meetings at all levels.

< 2 > the two countries have solved the border problems left over from history.

< 3 > The two countries have carried out extensive and in-depth military cooperation.

(2) Sino-Russian strategic cooperation has brought immeasurable realistic and long-term benefits to the two peoples.

(3) Sino-Russian strategic cooperation has promoted peace, stability and development in this region. President Hu Jintao once suggested that China and Russia should be sincere and mutual trust political partners, mutually beneficial and win-win economic and trade partners, innovative and technological partners, harmonious and friendly humanities partners and United and mutually beneficial security partners.

As friendly neighbors and comprehensive strategic cooperative partners, the two governments and peoples have comprehensively promoted the continuous development of Sino-Russian relations. Sino-Russian relations are currently in the best period of history and have broad prospects for future development, which can be called a model of state-to-state relations in the world.

High-level visits are frequent and contacts are close. The heads of state of the two countries keep meeting every year, and the exchanges between the government and parliamentary leaders are also closely and orderly. During President Hu Jintao's visit to Russia in June last year, the two heads of state made a comprehensive plan for the development of bilateral relations in the future 10. When President Putin visited China and attended the SCO Beijing Summit in June this year, the two heads of state reached a series of important consensuses, issued a joint statement on further deepening the China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership of equality and trust, and signed a number of cooperation agreements, which laid a more solid foundation for the development of Sino-Russian relations in the new era.

Political mutual trust has been continuously strengthened and strategic cooperation has been deepened. China and Russia are important forces in multipolarization of the world and democratization of international relations. The two sides firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests such as sovereignty, security and development; Close communication and active cooperation on major international and regional issues; Strengthen strategic cooperation in dealing with international political, security and economic issues, safeguard the fundamental interests of the two countries, and promote regional and world peace, stability and development.

Economic and trade cooperation continues to advance, with broad prospects. The bilateral trade volume between the two countries reached US$ 80 billion at 20 1 1, and maintained a good growth momentum in the first half of this year, making solid progress towards the goals of US$ 20 100 billion and US$ 200 billion in 2020. Cooperation in the fields of energy, high technology and finance has developed in depth, and border and local cooperation has become a new growth point. China and Russia will continue to give full play to their respective advantages and potentials, constantly innovate cooperation modes, and continue to make efforts in the direction of optimizing trade structure, standardizing trade order, improving cooperation quality and increasing mutual investment, so that the economic interests of the two countries will be closer and the people will get more benefits.

People-to-people cooperation and people-to-people exchanges have flourished, with bright spots. The institutionalization of humanities cooperation between the two countries has entered 12 years, with fruitful cooperation in education, science and technology, culture and other fields and deepening friendship between the people. On the basis of successfully holding activities such as "Year of the Country" and "Year of the Language", the activities of "Year of Tourism" between China and Russia have flourished. This will continuously promote cultural and local exchanges between the two sides, enhance mutual understanding and trust between the two peoples, and further consolidate the social foundation of good-neighborly friendship and strategic partnership between the two countries.

Media cooperation has great potential and far-reaching influence. For a long time, the Chinese and Russian media have continuously strengthened their cooperation and contact by setting up correspondent stations, sending correspondent groups to each other, jointly filming or interviewing, sharing information and exchanging experiences, and actively reported all aspects of the political, economic, social and cultural life of the two countries, which has played an irreplaceable role as a bridge to promote the development of bilateral relations, deepen the understanding between the two peoples and consolidate the traditional friendship. In the future, the media of the two countries will continue to exert their wisdom and creativity, explore new modes of cooperation, write a new chapter, and add new impetus to promoting China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

President Putin once pointed out: "Russia needs a prosperous China, and China also needs a successful Russia." As important emerging market countries in the world and the Asia-Pacific region, both China and Russia regard each other's development as an important opportunity.

The 20th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting will be held in Russia soon, which provides new opportunities for further strengthening cooperation between China and Russia.

APEC is the most important economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region, and it plays an increasingly important role in promoting the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment in the region, deepening regional economic integration, strengthening economic and technological cooperation and achieving common development. It is of great significance to run the APEC summit well.

The APEC summit was held in Russia for the first time, which brought new opportunities for Russia to show its image to the international community, expand cooperation and further promote the development of the Far East. Russia has made great efforts to hold a high-level APEC summit, invested more than 600 billion rubles to build and improve a large number of infrastructure and conference facilities, and carried out various preparatory work in detail. It is believed that the success of this summit will be a new starting point for Russia to deepen bilateral and multilateral cooperation with countries in the Asia-Pacific region and play a great role in promoting the Asia-Pacific region to become a peaceful, developed, prosperous and harmonious region.

China attaches great importance to this APEC summit. We believe that giving full support to Russia in running this summit is an important measure to promote the further development of China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, deepen pragmatic cooperation between the two countries in various fields, and especially promote local cooperation between Northeast China and the Russian Far East and East Siberia. At that time, China president Hu Jintao will lead a delegation to attend the summit, discuss with President Putin and leaders of other participating economies the development plan of Asia-Pacific economic cooperation, and * * * seek good strategies for regional development. China is willing to work with the Russian Federation and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region to make new contributions to the balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and safe growth of the Asia-Pacific region and the world economy.