On the afternoon of July 15, 2025, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council held the 10th China-Australia Annual Leaders' Meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is on an official visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Li Qiang said that the world economy is facing growing instability and uncertainty, and all countries are encountering new challenges in their development. In this context, the significance of strengthening exchanges and cooperation between China and Australia, as major economic and trade partners, has become more prominent. This morning, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had a meeting and reached important common understandings on further deepening China-Australia relations. China is ready to work with Australia to keep expanding and deepening bilateral cooperation, achieve higher-level mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, and deliver greater benefits to the two peoples.

Li Qiang noted that the Chinese and Australian economies are highly complementary, with broad prospects for cooperation in such areas as energy and mineral resources, agricultural products, green development and scientific and technological innovation. China is ready to work with Australia to fully utilize various dialogue mechanisms such as the Strategic Economic Dialogue, the Joint Committee on Cooperation in Agriculture, and the High-level Dialogue on Trade Remedies, and strengthen the planning and design for cooperation across different sectors to explore more converging interests and new growth drivers and unlock the vast potential of bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Li Qiang hopes that Australia will provide a fair, open and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese enterprises operating in Australia. China is also ready to work with Australia to continue to strongly support exchanges in areas such as culture, education, tourism and at the subnational level, and further facilitate personnel exchanges between the two sides. As supporters and beneficiaries of multilateralism and free trade, and as active advocates and promoters of Asia-Pacific regional cooperation, China and Australia should strengthen communication and coordination within the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), APEC and other frameworks, uphold the rules-based multilateral trading system, and work together to foster a sound international economic and trade cooperation environment.

Anthony Albanese said that Australia-China relations are currently enjoying a sound momentum of growth. Australia attaches great importance to and is committed to building a stable and constructive bilateral relationship. Australia remains committed to the one-China policy, does not support "Taiwan independence", and is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with China and enhance dialogue and communication in diplomacy, economy, trade and other fields to ensure that differences do not define the bilateral relationship. Noting that Australia and China are highly complementary in economy, Anthony Albanese said that Australia looks forward to deepening mutually beneficial cooperation with China in economy, trade, agriculture, tourism, culture and other areas, and deepening education, people-to-people and youth exchanges. Australia is willing to provide a stable and predictable environment for Chinese businesses to invest and do business in the country and welcomes more Chinese students and tourists to visit the country. Australia firmly supports multilateralism and fair and free trade, and is willing to work with China to address global challenges such as climate change and jointly uphold the WTO-centered multilateral trading system.

Following the talks, Premier Li Qiang and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese witnessed the signing of multiple cooperation documents in trade, customs inspection and quarantine, agriculture, tourism and other fields.

Before the talks, Li Qiang hosted a welcoming ceremony for Anthony Albanese at the North Hall of the Great Hall of the People.

The two sides jointly issued a Statement on Joint Outcomes of the China-Australia Annual Leaders' Meeting.

Wu Zhenglong attended the above events.