Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 26. On November 26, President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin sent congratulatory letters to the closing ceremony of the China-Russia Year of Science and Technology Innovation.

  Xi Jinping pointed out that at the opening of the China-Russia Year of Science and Technology Innovation in August 2020, President Putin and I respectively sent letters to congratulate them and placed high hopes.

For more than a year, China and Russia have worked together to overcome the adverse effects of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, creatively implemented more than a thousand scientific and technological innovation cooperation and exchange activities, and actively promoted the two countries' achievements in epidemic prevention and control, aerospace, nuclear energy, and digital economy. The fruitful cooperation results were approved, the China-Russia Joint Science and Technology Innovation Fund was successfully launched, and important progress was made in cooperation on strategic large-scale projects.

Practice has proved that China-Russia cooperation in science and technology innovation has great potential and broad prospects.

  Xi Jinping emphasized that China and Russia are each other's largest neighbors and are playing an increasingly important role in today's international political and economic arena.

The two sides must uphold the concept of generational friendship and win-win cooperation, pragmatically promote exchanges and cooperation in various fields, promote China-Russia relations to a higher level, higher quality, and higher level, and inject new impetus into building a new type of international relations and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. .

  Putin said in the congratulatory letter that with the joint efforts of both sides, the successful holding of the Russia-China Year of Scientific and Technological Innovation fully demonstrated the significance of scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries under the framework of a comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation in the new era.

In the past two years, Russian and Chinese scientific researchers have overcome the impact of the epidemic and implemented more than 1,000 scientific research activities.

China's participation in the construction of a large-scale scientific facility for the heavy ion superconducting synchrotron (NICA), and the establishment of the Russian-Chinese Mathematical Center by the two parties have become the most important cooperation results.

It is believed that the two sides will continue to uphold the concept of generational friendship and win-win cooperation, and continue to inject strong impetus into the promotion of all-round cooperation between Russia and China.

  The China-Russia Year of Science and Technology Innovation concluded on the same day.