Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will exchange views on bilateral ties, cooperation in various fields, as well as international and regional issues of mutual interest during Putin’s upcoming visit to China, a spokesperson said on Monday.
Putin’s State Visit to China
Putin will pay a state visit to China from May 19 to 20 at the invitation of Xi. This will be President Putin’s 25th visit to China, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular news briefing.
“The two sides will take this visit as an opportunity to continue to promote the development of China-Russia relations to a higher level, which will inject greater stability and positive energy into the world,” Guo said.
Xi Urges Faster Building of Chinese Intellectual System
In a separate development, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed accelerating the building of a Chinese intellectual system in philosophy and social sciences. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction on promoting the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences.
Xi noted that since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012, China’s philosophy and social sciences community has steadily advanced knowledge innovation, theoretical innovation and method innovation, producing a number of valuable research outcomes.
He emphasised the need to deepen systematic and academic research and interpretation of the Party’s new theories. He called for speeding up the building of a Chinese intellectual system in philosophy and social sciences, better responding to the questions posed by China, by the world, by the people and by the times, striving for new progress in the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences, and therefore contributing wisdom and strength to advancing Chinese modernisation.
