On March 1, 2024, Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong met with newly-appointed Ambassador of Cambodia to China SOEUNG Rathchavy. Sun Weidong welcomed SOEUNG Rathchavy's assumption of the new post in China. The two sides had an exchange of views on China-Cambodia relations and issues of mutual interest and concern, spoke highly of the ironclad friendship between China and Cambodia, and agreed to implement the important common understandings reached by the two heads of state, accelerate the building of the "Industrial Development Corridor" and the "Fish and Rice Corridor", continuously enrich the connotation of the "diamond hexagon" cooperation framework, make the China-Cambodia Year of People-to-People Exchanges this year a success, and promote the building of a high-quality, high-level and high-standard China-Cambodia community with a shared future for the new era.