Deputy Prime Minister Saleumxay Kommasith visited Beijing as Particular Envoy of President Thongloun Sisoulith, assembly with China’s high occasion and state management in a go to that reaffirmed the enduring strategic partnership between the 2 nations.
On 21 April, Saleumxay met with Chinese language President Xi Jinping on the Nice Corridor of the Folks, conveying a private letter from President Thongloun.
As 2026 marks each the sixty fifth anniversary of Laos-China diplomatic ties and the Yr of Laos-China Friendship, Xi known as it a 12 months of serious alternative for bilateral relations, urging each side to uphold long-term stability, ahead pondering, good neighborliness, and complete cooperation, and to advance the Laos-China group with a shared future towards excessive requirements, prime quality, and excessive ranges.
On the identical day, Saleumxay met with Chinese language Overseas Minister Wang Yi.
Wang pledged China’s assist in aligning improvement methods, advancing whole-industry-chain cooperation in minerals and electrical energy, and helping Laos in financial transformation and industrial progress. Saleumxay expressed Laos’ readiness to broaden cooperation in connectivity, power, and minerals, and to collectively have a good time the sixty fifth anniversary of diplomatic relations.
Previous to the assembly with Xi and Wang, Saleumxay on 20 April met with Minister Liu Haixing on the Worldwide Division of the Communist Occasion of China Central Committee.. Either side counseled the go to as a robust gesture of inter-party strategic communication and dedicated to deepening cooperation in occasion constructing, state governance, and the Laos-China group.
All through the go to, Saleumxay reaffirmed Laos’ unwavering assist for the one-China precept and its full endorsement of China’s 4 international initiatives, underscoring Vientiane’s deep dedication to its partnership with Beijing.
