On May 12, 2025, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Foreign Minister of Venezuela Yván Gil in Beijing.

Wang Yi said that China and Venezuela are good friends with mutual trust and good partners for common development. Bilateral relations have withstood the tests of the international landscape. Three days ago, President Xi Jinping held a fruitful meeting with President Nicolás Maduro Moros in Moscow, charting the course for the development of bilateral relations in the next stage. China is ready to work with Venezuela to deliver on the important common understandings reached between the two heads of state, promote new and tangible outcomes in the all-weather strategic partnership between China and Venezuela, and bring more benefits to the people of the two countries.

Wang Yi stated that both China and Venezuela are important members of the Global South. China appreciates Venezuela's unwavering commitment to self-reliance and achieving national development despite coercion and pressure. China is ready to work with Venezuela to strengthen unity and cooperation, advocate and practice multilateralism, safeguard their own legitimate rights and interests, defend the common interests of developing countries, and promote mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Latin America. Both sides should give full play to the role of the China-Venezuela High-level Mixed Committee and advance cooperation in various fields such as agriculture, trade, energy and minerals in a coordinated manner. China welcomes more quality products from Venezuela to the Chinese market. China is ready to strengthen exchanges of governance experience between the two countries and support Venezuela in its continued efforts to pursue a development path suited to its national conditions.

Wang Yi expressed that it is an inevitable trend of history that Latin American countries are stepping onto the international stage with great strides. China firmly supports regional countries in seeking strength through unity, and playing a greater role in international and regional affairs. China is ready to work with Venezuela and other Latin American countries to oppose hegemonic and bullying practices, and uphold international justice. China appreciates Venezuela's support for the development of the CELAC mechanism and its active participation in the China-CELAC Forum. China is ready to work with Latin American countries to discuss development and revitalization, plan future cooperation, and deliver more outcomes at this ministerial meeting, so as to send a powerful message of unity and cooperation and inject new impetus into the building of a China-CELAC community with a shared future. China is also ready to join hands with Global South countries to work for an equal and orderly multipolar world.

Yván Gil said that Venezuela and China have established an all-weather strategic partnership. Bilateral relations have achieved all-round development and cooperation across various fields has yielded important results. Venezuela is satisfied with and proud of the achievements. China is a peaceful major country that plays an important role in safeguarding international rules, including the United Nations Charter, and is a key force in promoting unity and cooperation among developing countries. Venezuela firmly supports China's just stance. Latin American countries are full of expectations for the important remarks that President Xi Jinping will deliver at the Fourth Ministerial Meeting of the China-CELAC Forum the next day, and extend their congratulations and express confidence that the ministerial meeting will be a complete success, further strengthening and deepening Latin America-China relations.