The China-Central Asia Summit is China's first major home diplomatic activity in 2023. In 3 1 year after the establishment of diplomatic relations, the heads of state of China, Central Asia and six countries held their first summit in entity form. On May 19, 2023, the six countries signed the Xi Declaration of the China-Central Asia Summit, adopted the List of Achievements of the China-Central Asia Summit, and decided to take this summit as an opportunity to formally establish the meeting mechanism of the China-Central Asia Summit.
The five Central Asian countries are friendly neighbors of China, and they are important partners in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the fight against the "three forces". At present, the world has entered a new period of turmoil and change, and world peace and development are facing severe challenges. How to further promote the relationship between China and Central Asian countries, consolidate the achievements of cooperation between China and Central Asia, and improve the level of institutionalization is one of the major issues facing China's diplomacy under the new situation.
Summit declaration
All parties agree that it is in the fundamental interests of the six countries and their peoples to maintain fruitful and all-round cooperation between China and the five Central Asian countries. Facing the unprecedented changes in the past century and focusing on the future of the people in the region, the six countries are determined to work together to build a closer China-Central Asia destiny community.
The parties announced that the China-Central Asia summit mechanism was formally established with this summit as an opportunity. The summit is held every two years, with China on one side and Central Asian countries on the other, and the two sides take turns to hold it. All parties are willing to give full play to the strategic leading role of heads of state diplomacy and strengthen the top-level design and overall planning for the development of relations between China and Central Asian countries.
All parties will speed up the construction of China-Central Asia mechanism, establish ministerial meeting mechanism in key priority areas of cooperation as soon as possible, give full play to the role of the diplomatic department, study the feasibility of establishing a permanent secretariat, and comprehensively promote the construction of China-Central Asia cooperation and related mechanisms.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-China-Central Asia Summit