On January 2 local time, President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil met in Brasilia with President Xi Jinping's Special Envoy and Vice President Li Yuanchao, who was there to attend her reelection inauguration ceremony. Reelected Vice President Michel Temer was present at the meeting.

At the meeting, Li Yuanchao conveyed a personally signed letter from Xi Jinping, in which Xi Jinping congratulated Rousseff on her reelection as President of Brazil, saying that I highly value the development of China-Brazil relations, am willing to be committed to continuously promoting the sustained and in-depth development of the China-Brazil comprehensive strategic partnership along with President Rousseff, and believe that the first ministerial meeting of the Forum of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) soon to be held in Beijing will definitely win active support and participation from Brazil.

Li Yuanchao said that China and Brazil are both major developing countries, and are comprehensive strategic partners to each other. Last year, President Xi Jinping and President Rousseff met twice, charting the course for the development of the bilateral relations. The development of the China-Brazil relationship is now in a new era with strategically important opportunities. China attaches great importance to the development of China-Brazil relations, and is willing to work with Brazil to speed up the implementation of the consensus between the leaders of the two countries, maintain high-level exchanges, make good overall planning and coordination, enhance all-round exchanges, strengthen multilateral strategic cooperation and deepen practical cooperation, so as to promote the China-Brazil comprehensive strategic partnership for more fruitful results. China hopes for progress in the railway project among China, Brazil and Peru aiming to link the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Rousseff thanked Li Yuanchao for attending her reelection inauguration ceremony as President Xi Jinping's Special Envoy, and expressed that the Brazil-China relationship, being strategic and stable, is a priority direction of Brazil's diplomacy. The new government of Brazil is willing to further enhance the bilateral high-level exchanges and make good use of the existing cooperation mechanisms to deepen economic and trade cooperation and strengthen coordination in international affairs. Brazil will sign the cooperation agreements concerning the railway project linking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans as soon as possible and render support to the first ministerial meeting of the CELAC-China Forum.