Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic meets with visiting President of Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua in Belgrade, Serbia, on April 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Jing) While expressing his belief that Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming state visit will bring new hope to Serbia's development, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said: "I am very much looking forward to President Xi's visit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5 to 10. This will be the first visit to Europe by China's head of state in nearly five years.
A train runs on the Belgrade-Novi Sad high-speed railway on the Danube river in Serbia, March 12, 2024. (Photo by Ren Weiyun/Xinhua) Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visits are expected to promote the sustained, steady and sound development of China-Europe relations, help provide more stability and certainty for a turbulent world, and further energize global development.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5 to 10 at the invitation of President Emmanuel Macron of the Republic of France, President Aleksandar Vucic of the Republic of Serbia and President Tamas Sulyok and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying announced on Monday, a trip that experts believe is expected to shape the future of relations between China and Europe. The visits show that both China and Europe are striving to explore the space and prospects of cooperation in an era when major power strategic competition intensifies and geopolitics returns, Chinese and European experts noted.