On November 21, 2025 local time, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev met with Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Tashkent.

Shavkat Mirziyoyev asked Wang Yi to convey his sincerest greetings to President Xi Jinping and expressed warm congratulations on the successful convening of the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. He expressed the belief that all the tasks set in the Recommendations for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan will be successfully achieved as scheduled, and thanked China for its long-term valuable support for Uzbekistan's economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods. He said that Uzbekistan and China have made breakthroughs in cooperation across various fields and that the development of bilateral relations will not be affected by any external factors. Uzbekistan looks forward to working with China to maintain high-level exchanges, enhance strategic mutual trust, advance the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, and strengthen cooperation in investment, high and new technology, connectivity, agriculture, green energy, poverty reduction, people-to-people exchanges and sub-national cooperation. Uzbekistan firmly adheres to the one-China principle and is willing to work with China to promote long-standing friendship, resolutely combat the three forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism, treat each other as reliable friends and partners, and maintain mutual respect, understanding and support. The four major global initiatives and the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping are of great significance to the era, and Uzbekistan is ready to work with China to implement them. Uzbekistan highly appreciates China's increasingly important leading role in promoting world peace and development.

Wang Yi conveyed President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, noting that under the leadership of the two heads of state, China-Uzbekistan relations have continuously reached new heights and bilateral cooperation has yielded fruitful results. China firmly supports Uzbekistan in safeguarding its national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and firmly supports the reform and development measures taken by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to make greater achievements in the building of a "New Uzbekistan" and realize Uzbekistan's great cause of state and national rejuvenation.

Wang Yi said that China and Uzbekistan have well-aligned development strategies, similar governance philosophies and highly complementary economies, and are sincere friends who support each other and close partners who work together for development. The fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee deliberated over and adopted the Recommendations for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan, providing a top-level design for China's economic and social development in the next five years and also bringing new opportunities for China-Uzbekistan cooperation and global development. China and Uzbekistan should accelerate the synergy of development strategies, advance the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, create visible cooperation results in more fields, foster new growth drivers for cooperation, and achieve a trade value of 20 billion U.S. dollars as soon as possible and move toward even greater goals. Both sides should speed up the establishment of cultural centers in each other's countries, deepen sub-national exchanges and cooperation, establish more sister provinces, regions and cities, and make China-Uzbekistan relations closer and stronger than ever. Uzbekistan has achieved remarkable results in poverty reduction. Wang Yi expressed the belief that the goal set by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to eliminate absolute poverty by 2030 can be achieved as scheduled. China will continue sharing its experience to assist Uzbekistan in poverty reduction.

Wang Yi said that China appreciates President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's immediate support for the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping and is ready to work with Uzbekistan to implement the four major global initiatives, uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, enhance coordination within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and on the Afghan issue, optimize and strengthen the China-Central Asia mechanism, and jointly build a closer China-Central Asia community with a shared future. China welcomes Uzbekistan's participation in the preparation for the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization and its becoming a founding member of the organization, and looks forward to Uzbekistan's early accession to the International Organization for Mediation, jointly making new contributions to building a more just and equitable global governance system and promoting world peace and development.

On the same day, Wang Yi also held the Second Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue with Uzbekistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov.