With a flick of a finger, China and France have established diplomatic relations for more than 50 years. Two ancient and often new countries have ushered in new development opportunities: China has entered a new era, Socialism with Chinese characteristics has built a new era, the economy has transformed into high-quality development, and China wisdom such as building a community of human destiny and building the "Belt and Road" has increasingly affected the global future; Since Macron was elected president, the French reform has been promoted rapidly, the economy has begun to show signs of revitalization, and diplomacy has also stood out. It is timely to take this opportunity to push the close and lasting comprehensive strategic partnership between China and France to a new level.
People expect political mutual trust between China and France to be further enhanced and pragmatic cooperation to achieve new results.
Top-level design is very important to write a new chapter of friendship. The heads of state of China and France will comprehensively review and look forward to Sino-French relations. On the basis of summing up past experience, they will enhance political mutual trust, gather strategic consensus, point out the direction and make plans for exchanges and cooperation between China and France in various fields.
The Fifth Sino-French High-level Economic, Financial and Financial Dialogue held in Beijing last year laid a good foundation for the opening-up of economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, and fully demonstrated China's determination to deepen opening-up and the sincerity of mutual benefit and win-win between China and France. During this visit, Sino-French cooperation in the fields of nuclear energy, aerospace, investment, advanced manufacturing and agriculture is expected to be further deepened.
It is expected that Sino-French friendship will transcend bilateral relations, radiate to Europe and contribute to the construction of the EU and the new development of China-EU relations.
At this stage, the EU is facing many challenges, such as the growing populist forces and the trend of "Euroscepticism". After Macron took office, he put forward a plan to reshape the EU, which has a far-reaching impact on the development prospects of the EU.
Facing all kinds of unstable factors in Europe, China's European policy is "steady as Mount Tai, consistent". China will continue to view and promote China-EU relations from the global situation and the general trend of the world, firmly support the process of European integration, and be happy to see the unity and development of the EU. Taking this visit as an opportunity, China and France will strengthen communication and cooperation to further enrich and expand the strategic connotation of China-EU relations.
It is expected that China and France will go hand in hand and inject new impetus into meeting global challenges and maintaining world peace and stability.
Both China and France are permanent members of the UN Security Council, and Sino-French relations have a global impact beyond bilateral scope. People have seen that China has played an important role in solving the North Korean nuclear issue and coping with regional and global challenges such as climate change, which has been unanimously recognized by the international community, and French has also played an active role in many international hot issues.
During the visit, the two sides will discuss how to jointly safeguard multilateralism, promote world multipolarization, build an open world economy and improve global governance. As a big country with a long cultural tradition and peace-loving, China and France go hand in hand, which is of exemplary significance to promoting the construction of new international relations. As Gao Dawei, founder of the China-Europe Forum, said, France and China "walk together on the road of building a community of human destiny".
After more than half a century, Sino-French friendship will last forever. May this friendship turn a new page in the new era, benefiting both sides and the world.