On May 12, 2025, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla in Beijing.

Wang Yi welcomed Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla to China for the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC Forum, stating that the friendship between China and Cuba has a long history. Although separated by vast oceans, the two countries have frequent interactions like neighbors. Three days ago, President Xi Jinping and President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez held a fruitful and important meeting in Moscow, charting the course for further development of China-Cuba relations.

Wang Yi said that over the past 65 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China and Cuba have always trusted and supported each other. The two countries have become comrades with sincerity and mutual trust among socialist countries and a model of solidarity and mutual assistance among developing countries. The two countries have also set a benchmark for the Global South in promoting unity and cooperation, upholding international fairness and justice, and opposing power politics and bullying. No matter how the international landscape evolves, maintaining, consolidating and developing the friendly relations between China and Cuba has always been an unwavering policy of the Chinese Party and government. China will continue to support Cuba in safeguarding its state sovereignty and national dignity, and in its just struggle against the blockade and sanctions, and make new progress in building a China-Cuba community with a shared future. Wang Yi expressed the confidence that with the support of Cuba and other parties, this Ministerial Meeting will surely be a complete success.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said that Cuba and China maintain highly frequent high-level exchanges, and the friendly relations between the two parties and the two countries are of strategic significance. He sincerely thanked the Chinese side for its firm support for Cuba's opposition to the blockade and sanctions, and for providing valuable assistance to Cuba in overcoming economic difficulties. 65 years ago, millions of Cuban people gathered in Havana, unanimously agreeing to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, which has become a glorious collective memory for all Cuban people. Cuba will continue to firmly abide by the one-China principle, work with China to deliver on the important common understandings reached between the two heads of state during their meeting in Moscow, and bring the Cuba-China relationship characterized by mutual respect, win-win outcomes and a future-oriented approach to a new height. He hopes and believes that the Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC Forum will achieve significant and positive outcomes.