Wang Yi On Broad Consensuses Reached between China and Mongolia

On August 8, 2022 native time, State Councilor and International Minister Wang Yi and Mongolian International Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg collectively met the press after their talks.

Wang Yi mentioned that since his final go to to Mongolia two years in the past, he has witnessed encouraging adjustments in Ulaanbaatar and felt the vitality of the huge grassland. As a pleasant neighboring nation, China is heartily glad with Mongolia’s speedy progress and looking out ahead to its growth and revitalization. Wang Yi briefed the broad consensuses reached by the 2 sides in the course of the go to.

The 2 sides agreed that confronted with the present complicated and risky worldwide and regional scenario, China and Mongolia are intently linked with a shared future, and ought to be good neighbors extra helpful than gold, good brothers sharing weal and woe, and good companions striving for widespread growth.

The 2 sides are prepared to advertise the in-depth synergy between the Belt and Street Initiative and Mongolia’s Steppe Street Program, the International Growth Initiative and Mongolia’s New Revival Coverage, and China’s “two-step” growth technique and Mongolia’s long-term growth imaginative and prescient, in order to create three main engines for additional growth of bilateral relations.

The 2 sides reaffirmed mutual respect for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and proceed to firmly assist one another on points regarding one another’s core pursuits. China helps Mongolia in sustaining stability, specializing in growth and exploring a growth path in keeping with its personal nationwide situations. China appreciates that Mongolia reaffirms its agency dedication to the one-China precept and opposes interference in China’s inner affairs associated to Taiwan, Xizang, Xinjiang and Hong Kong, amongst others.

The 2 sides agreed to strengthen cooperation on the border, selling the opening of ports and connection of railways and highways to the biggest doable extent, in order to maintain the economic and provide chains steady and unimpeded. The 2 sides signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the cross-border railway connection program on the Gants Mod port will probably be necessary in serving to Mongolia to broaden its opening-up and obtain robust development.

The 2 sides agreed to advertise cooperation in such fields as financial system and commerce, funding, mining and vitality, science and expertise, agriculture and animal husbandry, forge main demonstration initiatives in areas together with infrastructure and vitality, and try to attain coordinated growth and customary prosperity between the 2 international locations.

The 2 sides agreed to advertise the Erdeneburen hydropower plant mission in a coordinated method, and pace up fixing the electrical energy provide drawback for individuals in western Mongolia. The 2 sides will assist the implementation of livelihood initiatives akin to shanty-town renovation, sewage therapy plant and meat processing plant as quickly as doable to higher profit the Mongolian individuals.

The 2 sides will improve cooperation in afforestation and counter-desertification. China appreciates Mongolia’s plan to plant one billion bushes, and China has proposed to plant 70 billion bushes within the subsequent ten years. China hopes that either side assist one another in greening the widespread dwelling and guarding the inexperienced land and blue sky.

The 2 sides agreed to proceed cooperation in combating the pandemic and defend individuals’s lives and safety, improve direct flights between the 2 international locations to facilitate personnel exchanges, and assist Mongolian college students in returning to China to renew lessons at an early date. The 2 sides additionally strengthen youth exchanges and sub-national cooperation to consolidate the inspiration of standard assist for the China-Mongolia friendship.

The 2 sides agreed to strengthen coordination in worldwide and regional affairs, uphold true multilateralism and open regionalism, push ahead the implementation of the International Growth Initiative and the International Safety Initiative, safeguard the widespread pursuits of creating international locations, be a part of fingers to advertise the event and prosperity of Asia, and collectively construct a group with a shared future for mankind.