Xi Jinping publishes a signed article in Hungarian media
Budapest, May 8. On May 8, when he was in Budapest for a state visit to Hungary, President Xi Jinping published a signed statement titled "Working Together to Lead China-Hungary Relations into the "Golden Channel"" in Hungary's "Hungarian National Newspaper" article. The full text of the article is as follows:
Join hands to lead China-Hungary relations into the “golden channel”
The fields of the Hungarian Great Plains are fragrant in May. At the warm invitation of President Schuyuk and Prime Minister Orban, I will soon pay a state visit to Hungary. This is the first time in 15 years that I have set foot on this beautiful and rich land. Over the past 15 years, I have met with Hungarian leaders who visited China many times and developed profound friendship with them. I look forward to revisiting my hometown, talking about friendship and cooperation with my Hungarian friends, and drawing up a new blueprint for the development of China-Hungary relations in the new era.
Hungary has beautiful scenery, outstanding people, and profound historical and cultural heritage. The patriotic poet Petofi's poems are popular, and the "King of Piano" Liszt's music is impassioned. The Hungarian people are industrious, intelligent, open and tolerant, brave in pioneering and innovative. Inventions such as ballpoint pens, holograms, and Rubik's cubes are all shining points in the process of human civilization.
Although China and Hungary are thousands of miles apart, the friendship between the two peoples has a long history. During the special period of coping with the international financial crisis and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic, the people of the two countries have been helping each other through thick and thin, and have written touching stories. The traditional friendship between China and Hungary is like the Hungarian Tokaj wine, fragrant, sweet, mellow and long-lasting.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Hungary. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, relations between the two countries have maintained steady and healthy development and achieved tangible achievements. The two sides adhere to mutual respect, equal treatment, mutual benefit and win-win, and regard each other as priority partners. In the ever-changing international situation, they are not afraid of wind and rain and power, and have embarked on a right path for independent and friendly foreign exchanges between sovereign countries.
Over the past 75 years, China and Hungary have insisted on being sincere and sincere good friends. The two sides uphold the original intention of establishing diplomatic relations, always respect and support each other's independently chosen development paths, always understand and support each other's core interests and major concerns, and are always happy to see continuous progress in the development of their respective countries and national rejuvenation. The two sides have established a high level of political mutual trust, and bilateral relations have entered the best period in history and entered the "golden channel."
Over the past 75 years, China and Hungary have persisted in being good partners for win-win cooperation. The two sides focus on high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", strengthen the in-depth docking of the two countries' strategies, deepen practical cooperation in various fields such as investment, infrastructure construction, finance, new energy, and communication technology, and jointly inject impetus into the recovery of the world economy. Today, Hungary is China’s number one investment destination and important trading partner in Central and Eastern Europe. The cooperation between the two countries has yielded fruitful results and is full of vitality.
Over the past 75 years, China and Hungary have persisted in being good friends who learn from each other. The Hungarian Cultural Center in Beijing has been operating well for many years, and the Chinese Cultural Center in Budapest is about to be officially put into operation. Many universities in China have opened Hungarian language majors. Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms are very popular in Hungary. The Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School in Budapest has trained batches of successors to the friendship between China and Hungary. Local exchanges are active and active, with the number of direct passenger flights between the two countries reaching double digits every week, and measures to facilitate personnel exchanges continue to be implemented and bear fruit. The people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries have taken greater and greater steps, and the foundation of friendship between the two peoples has become stronger and stronger.
Currently, both China and Hungary are at an important stage of their respective development. China is making great efforts to promote high-quality development and high-level opening up to the outside world, and comprehensively promote the great cause of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation with Chinese-style modernization. Hungary is also working hard to seek greater development. I hope that through this visit, I can work with Hungarian leaders to continue traditional friendship, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, and push China-Hungary comprehensive strategic partnership to a new height.
——We should inherit and carry forward traditional friendship and consolidate the political foundation of bilateral relations. A high level of political mutual trust is an important cornerstone of the rapid and stable China-Hungary relations. China is willing to take the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries as an opportunity to work with Hungary to make a top-level design for bilateral relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, consolidate the positive momentum of high-level exchanges, and support the two governments, legislative bodies, and political parties in maintaining regular exchanges and policy communication. We should firmly support each other's core interests and provide a solid political guarantee for the high-level development of China-Hungary relations.
——We must strengthen the docking of development strategies and create new highlights of practical cooperation. China is willing to promote the in-depth integration of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and Hungary's "Opening to the East" strategy, and accelerate the advancement of major cooperation projects such as the Hungary-Serbia railway. China will insist on promoting high-level opening up to the outside world and is willing to strengthen cooperation with Hungary in emerging fields such as clean energy, artificial intelligence, digital economy, and green development, cultivate new productive forces, and serve each other's high-quality development.
——We should continue to expand people-to-people and cultural exchanges and solidify the public opinion foundation of bilateral relations. People-to-people connectivity is the source of vitality for the development of China-Hungary relations. China is willing to continuously expand exchanges and cooperation with Hungary in various fields such as education, culture, tourism, sports, youth, media, and local areas, support language teaching in both countries, make full use of the mutually established cultural center platforms, and encourage various personnel and institutions Strengthen exchanges and interactions. China is willing to work with Hungary to continue to improve their respective visa facilitation levels, expand direct flights between the two countries, and create more favorable conditions for personnel exchanges between the two countries.
——We must jointly lead regional cooperation and adhere to the right direction of China-EU relations. Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries conforms to the trend of the times and the general development trend, serves the common interests of China and Central and Eastern European countries, and also provides a useful supplement to China-EU relations. Recently, China-EU relations have shown a momentum of stable and positive development. China and the EU are comprehensive strategic partners. Both sides share extensive common interests, cooperation outweighs competition, and consensus outweighs differences. Both sides have the responsibility to jointly provide more stability to the world and provide more impetus for global development. China is willing to work with Hungary to lead China-Central and Eastern European countries to deepen and solidify their cooperation and promote the stability and long-term development of China-EU relations.
——We must strengthen exchanges on international affairs and work together to address global challenges. Currently, the century-old changes in the world are accelerating, and various global challenges are emerging one after another, which require joint efforts from the international community to respond. China and Hungary have similar views and similar positions on the international and regional situation. We must adhere to unity and cooperation, vigorously promote the common values of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom for all mankind, practice true multilateralism, and actively advocate an equal and orderly world multipolarity and an inclusive and inclusive economic globalization. , continue to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and inject more positive energy into maintaining world peace and promoting common development.
There is an old Chinese saying, "Those who share the same goals are not far away from mountains and seas." Hungarian friends often say, "Good friends are more precious than gold." In the new era and new journey, China looks forward to continuing to write new stories of friendship with its Hungarian friends, drawing a new chapter of cooperation, and jointly opening up a bright future for the two peoples.
