On April 2, 2025, Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Bin held consultations on China-Russia relations and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) affairs with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko and met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Galuzin Mikhail Yuryevich in Moscow.

Liu Bin said under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin, the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era is moving to a higher level. China is ready to work with Russia to follow the fundamental guidance of the strategic common understandings reached between the two heads of state, intensify high-level exchanges, deepen strategic coordination and expand the space for win-win development. China has now assumed the rotating presidency of the SCO and will host the summit. China is ready to work with Russia and other member states to promote the SCO to strengthen cooperation and improve its operational mechanism, continue to grow, safeguard regional security and promote regional development.

The Russian side expressed willingness to work with the Chinese side to follow through on the important common understandings reached between the two heads of state and inject strong impetus into the development of Russia-China relations. Against the backdrop of complex changes in the international and regional situations, Russia is willing to maintain effective strategic coordination with China, promote cooperation in various fields and jointly hold a series of activities commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War and the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Russia firmly supports China in fulfilling the tasks of the SCO presidency, especially ensuring the success of the summit in Tianjin, and working for greater development of the SCO.

The two sides also had an exchange of views on the Ukraine crisis and other international and regional issues of common interest and concern.