On February 20, 2025, Vice Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong met with visiting Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uganda Bagiire Vincent Waiswa.

Chen Xiaodong said that in recent years, President Xi Jinping and President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni have met multiple times, steering the course for the development of China-Uganda relations in the new era. During the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2024, China-Uganda relations were elevated to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. China is ready to work with Uganda to follow through on the important common understandings reached by the two heads of state and the outcomes of the Beijing Summit, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, and continuously enrich the China-Uganda comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

Bagiire Vincent Waiswa spoke highly of Uganda-China relations, and reiterated that Uganda firmly abides by the one-China principle. He said Uganda is willing to continue to strengthen practical cooperation between the two sides in various fields, enhance coordination and cooperation within multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, greater BRICS, and the Global South, and promote better development of Uganda-China and Africa-China relations.