Guests attend the first China-Serbia Cultural Exchange Forum in Belgrade, Serbia, on April 29, 2024. About 50 experts, scholars and representatives from China and Serbia attended the forum here on Monday.
President Xi Jinping's upcoming state visits to France, Serbia and Hungary are expected to open new chapters of solidarity and cooperation between China and the three European countries, while injecting fresh impetus into the nation's ties with the European Union, said officials and analysts. Xi, making his first trip to Europe in five years, will visit the three countries between May 5 and 10 at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orban, according to China's Foreign Ministry.
BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At the invitation of President Emmanuel Macron of the Republic of France, President Aleksandar Vučić of the Republic of Serbia, and President Tamás Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5 to 10, foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Monday. This is the first visit to Europe by China's head of state in nearly five years, which is of great significance to the overall development of China's relations with France, Serbia, Hungary and Europe, and will inject new impetus into world peace and development, another foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press briefing on Monday.
People visit the exhibition "The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges Between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries" in the Hall of Literary Glory (Wenhuadian) of the Palace Museum, April 2, 2024. (People's Daily Online/Du Jianpo) An exhibition focusing on the exchanges between China and France in the 17th and 18th centuries recently kicked off in the Hall of Literary Glory (Wenhuadian) of the Palace Museum in Beijing, capital of China.
