On the evening of June 22, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with President of the European Council Michelle and President of the European Commission Feng Delaine in Beijing by video. This meeting is Xi Jinping's first meeting with the new EU leaders. In March this year, Xi Jinping called the two leaders to express their sincere condolences on the new coronary pneumonia epidemic in the EU.

  This is also the fifth time President Xi Jinping has met with foreign dignitaries and heads of international organizations since the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia. Unlike previous face-to-face meetings with WHO Director-General Tan Desai, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Mongolian President Battulega, and Pakistani President Alvi, this meeting is the first video session.

  During this meeting, Xi Jinping pointed out that since the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia, China and the EU have supported and helped each other. China is willing to join hands with the European side to promote the "post-epidemic era" of China-EU relations to be more stable and mature, and to a higher level.

  On November 20, 2013, Xi Jinping met in Beijing with the President of the European Council Fan Longpei and the President of the European Commission Barroso who came to China to attend the 16th China EU Leaders Meeting. He proposed at that time: China and Europe are the "two major forces" to maintain world peace, the "two major markets" to promote common development, and the "two major civilizations" to promote human progress.

  In March 2014, when President Xi Jinping visited the EU headquarters, he stressed that China-EU relations should be viewed from a strategic perspective, combining the two major forces, two markets, and two civilizations of China and Europe, and jointly building the four partners of peace, growth, reform, and civilization between China and Europe. relationship.

  In recent years, China-EU relations have developed rapidly and have achieved great results. In this special "cloud meeting", how does Xi Jinping set the tone for China-EU relations in the "post-epidemic era"? People's Daily.com Newsletter will use eight posters to sort out for you.