China News Agency, Beijing, November 28th. At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mongolian President Ukhna Khurelsukh will pay a state visit to China from November 27th to 28th.

On November 28, the two sides issued the "Joint Statement between the People's Republic of China and Mongolia on Promoting Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the New Era".

  The statement pointed out that the two sides agreed that as good neighbors, good friends, and good partners, China and Mongolia will join hands to promote modernization, and make efforts towards the direction of building a community of shared future between the two countries, featuring peaceful coexistence, mutual assistance, and win-win cooperation, and further building a harmonious relationship between the country and Mongolia. A model of state-to-state relations, and make greater contributions to regional and world peace, stability, development and prosperity.

The Mongolian side highly appreciates that China attaches great importance to relations with neighboring countries and shares development opportunities with neighboring countries based on the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness.

  In the statement, the two sides reaffirmed that they regard the development of China-Mongolia friendly and cooperative relations as the priority direction of their foreign policies, adhere to mutual respect for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, respect each other's development paths chosen by the two peoples according to their national conditions, and firmly support each other's core interests.

The Mongolian side reaffirmed its firm adherence to the one-China principle and supported China's stance on issues related to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet.

China congratulates Mongolia on the 30th anniversary of its declaration of nuclear-weapon-free status.

The Mongolian side appreciates China's efforts to maintain regional peace and security, and to promote and support the international community's recognition of Mongolia's nuclear-weapon-free status.

  The statement stated that the two sides agreed to take connectivity and energy cooperation as one of the priority directions of China-Mongolia cooperation.

The two sides will speed up the promotion of China-Mongolia railway, highway, port and other infrastructure and large-scale cooperation in mineral energy resources, build demonstration projects in the field of clean energy, and comprehensively improve the scale, quality and level of China-Mongolia economic and trade cooperation.

The two sides will actively promote the construction of cross-border railways that have been agreed upon, and open up new interconnection channels at an early date.

  The statement stated that the two sides spoke positively of the sixth meeting of the heads of state of China, Mongolia and Russia and the results of the cooperation between the three countries, and agreed to work with Russia to step up efforts to promote the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor and accelerate the upgrading and development of the middle-line railway of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor. Feasibility study, and actively promote the laying project of China-Russia natural gas pipeline transiting Mongolia.

  The statement pointed out that the two sides agreed that China and Mongolia are both developing countries and share broad common interests and similar positions in international and regional affairs. Conference, CICA, ASEAN Regional Forum, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other platforms to coordinate and cooperate.

The two sides will respect the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, maintain the solidarity and cooperation of the international community, jointly defend multilateralism, and promote the common values ​​​​of all mankind, such as peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom.

  The statement stated that Mongolia is willing to jointly address global issues such as climate change and terrorism within the framework of the global security initiative proposed by China, and actively carry out cooperation in disaster prevention and reduction, public health protection and other fields.

China speaks highly of the "Ulaanbaatar Dialogue" held by the Mongolian side, and believes that this mechanism will make positive contributions to regional peace and security.

  The statement stated that the two sides spoke positively of each other's strong measures to address climate change and combat desertification, and agreed to strengthen cooperation in the fields of ecological environment and desertification prevention and control.

China speaks highly of and actively supports Mongolia's "Planting a Billion Trees" plan, and agrees to promote green development within the framework of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and work on addressing climate change will be docked with the "Planting a Billion Trees" plan to jointly implement cooperation projects.

China congratulates Mongolia for hosting the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2026, and is willing to carry out relevant cooperation with Mongolia.

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