On December 25, 2024, Vice Foreign Minister Chen Xiaodong met with visiting Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Burundi Ferdinand Bashikako.

Chen Xiaodong said that China and Burundi are good friends who stand together through thick and thin and share a common future. The two sides have always trusted and supported each other, coordinated closely in the multilateral arena, and achieved fruitful results in mutually beneficial cooperation. During this year's Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), President Xi Jinping met with President Evariste Ndayishimiye and reached important common understandings. They jointly announced the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership, providing strategic guidance for the development of bilateral relations. China is ready to take the implementation of the common understandings reached between the two heads of state and the outcomes of the FOCAC summit as an opportunity to continuously deepen cooperation and exchanges in various fields and promote new development in China-Burundi and China-Africa relations.

Ferdinand Bashikako thanked China for its long-term valuable support for Burundi's economic and social development, and reiterated that Burundi will continue to abide by the one-China principle and work with China to firmly support each other on issues concerning their respective core interests. Burundi looks forward to learning from the experience of Chinese modernization, deepening mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, strengthening coordination and cooperation in regional and international affairs, and working together to promote better development of Burundi-China and Africa-China relations.