Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The People’s Republic of China
Wang Yi Meets with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev
Updated: April 27, 2025 23:55

On April 26, 2025 local time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubaev in Almaty.

Wang Yi said, China and Kyrgyzstan are connected by mountains and rivers. The two sides have always engaged each other with trust and treated each other with sincerity. They are good brothers and good partners that can rely on each other and engage in heart-to-heart exchanges. Under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Sadyr Japarov, bilateral relations have developed rapidly, and the two sides are working together to build a community with a shared future featuring good-neighborliness, friendship and shared prosperity. China firmly supports Kyrgyzstan in following a development path suited to its national conditions, resolutely opposes any force interfering in Kyrgyzstan's internal affairs under any pretext, and believes that Kyrgyzstan will continue to support China's legitimate position on issues concerning core interests. China is ready to work with Kyrgyzstan to deliver on the common understandings reached between the two heads of state, maintain high-level exchanges, deepen strategic mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, and bring more benefits to the people of the two countries and the region.

Jeenbek Kulubaev said, President Sadyr Japarov's visit to China in February this year was a complete success, injecting new and strong impetus into the relationship between Kyrgyzstan and China. Jeenbek Kulubaev thanked China for its tremendous support to Kyrgyzstan's economic and social development, saying that Kyrgyzstan is willing to work with China to follow the direction set by the two heads of state, deepen good-neighborly and friendly relations between the two countries, and achieve success in building a Kyrgyzstan-China community with a shared future.

The two sides reviewed the key cooperation projects under the Belt and Road Initiative and agreed to steadily advance the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, deeply explore the converging interests between the two sides, continuously enrich bilateral relations, and further facilitate personnel exchanges. Jeenbek Kulubaev said, China has become Kyrgyzstan's largest economic and trade partner. Kyrgyzstan welcomes Chinese enterprises and is willing to provide a favorable business environment for them to invest and do business in the country.

The two sides had an exchange of views on tariff issues, believing that adhering to multilateralism represents the broadest common ground. The two sides should enhance collaboration, join hands to deal with the situation, uphold free trade, safeguard international rules, and protect their respective legitimate rights and interests as well as the common interests of the region.

The two sides also had an exchange of views on strengthening cooperation within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The Kyrgyz side said that it supports China in assuming the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and hosting the Tianjin Summit.