On October 15, Zhang Youxia, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with Russian Defense Minister Belousov visiting China in Beijing. Zhang Youxia said that in recent years, Sino-Russian relations have reached the highest level in history and have continued to develop healthily and steadily. This is fundamentally due to the strategic leadership and personal promotion of President Xi Jinping and President Putin. We are ready to work with Russia to use the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries as a new starting point to continuously consolidate and develop Sino-Russian relations of permanent good neighborliness and friendship, a high level of strategic mutual trust, and mutually beneficial cooperation. We hope that the two sides will work together to implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, maintain close high-level contacts, deepen and expand the relationship between the two armies, safeguard the sovereignty, security and development interests of each country, and work together to maintain international and regional peace and stability.

On October 15, Zhang Youxia, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with Russian Defense Minister Belousov visiting China in Beijing. Zhang Youxia said that in recent years, Sino-Russian relations have reached the highest level in history and have continued to develop healthily and steadily. This is fundamentally due to the strategic leadership and personal promotion of President Xi Jinping and President Putin. We are ready to work with Russia to use the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries as a new starting point to continuously consolidate and develop Sino-Russian relations of permanent good neighborliness and friendship, a high level of strategic mutual trust, and mutually beneficial cooperation. We hope that the two sides will work together to implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, maintain close high-level contacts, deepen and expand the relationship between the two armies, safeguard the sovereignty, security and development interests of each country, and work together to maintain international and regional peace and stability.