On the morning of November 19, 2024 local time, President Xi Jinping met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Xi Jinping noted that he and Olaf Scholz had frank, in-depth and fruitful exchanges during Olaf Scholz's visit to China in April this year. Over the past more than half a year, the two countries have achieved significant results in such fields as green development, sustainable transportation, and agricultural cooperation with Africa. China-Germany relations continue to glow with new vitality and dynamism. Today, the transformation of a scale not seen in a century is accelerating across the world, and global development is at a critical crossroads. As the second and third largest economies in the world, China and Germany are both major countries with significant influence. The two countries need to consolidate China-Germany all-round strategic partnership from a long-term and strategic perspective and continue to write stories of cooperation that lead to mutual success.

Xi Jinping stressed that China's policy toward Germany maintains a high degree of stability and continuity, and is ready to work with Germany to respect each other's core interests and major concerns, seek common ground while shelving differences, and learn from each other. China and Germany share highly integrated economic interests, and bilateral cooperation is an opportunity for shared development and a common future. China regards Germany as an important partner in advancing Chinese modernization, and will continue to provide broad market opportunities for German companies. Both sides should focus on upgrading cooperation through digitalization, intelligence and low-carbon action, and work together to explore third-party markets to achieve win-win cooperation. China regards Europe as an important pole in a multi-polar world and is committed to cooperating with Europe to jointly meet challenges and promote the sustained, steady and sound development of China-EU relations. The European Union's imposition of additional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles has drawn global attention. China always stays committed to resolving differences through dialogue and negotiation and hopes Germany will continue to play an important role in this regard.

Olaf Scholz said that since his last visit to China, the Germany-China relationship has made positive progress. Under the current complex international situation, it is of great importance for Germany and China to strengthen communication and cooperation. The German side hopes to further develop the all-round strategic partnership with China, strengthen bilateral and multilateral dialogue and cooperation in the spirit of equality, frankness and mutual respect, properly resolve differences, achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and contribute to world economic recovery, growth and common prosperity. He expressed the hope that the EU and China will solve the issue of electric vehicles as soon as possible through dialogue and negotiation. The German side is willing to make positive efforts in this regard.

The two sides also had an exchange of views on the Ukraine crisis, the situation in the Middle East and other hotspot issues.

Cai Qi and Wang Yi, among others, were present at the meeting.