At the invitation of King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Cambodia from April 17 to 18, 2025. This is President Xi Jinping's first visit to Cambodia in nine years.
On April 18, 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded his state visit to Cambodia and returned to Beijing. When departing from Phnom Penh, Cambodian People's Party President and Senate President Samdech Techo Hun Sen held a grand farewell ceremony for President Xi Jinping at the airport.
PHNOM PENH, April 18 (Xinhua) -- China and Cambodia on Friday expressed readiness to fully implement the China-proposed Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative. The commitment was underscored in a joint statement issued when Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his state visit to Cambodia, where both countries also highlighted their mutual goal of speeding up the building of an all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era.
PHNOM PENH, April 18 (Xinhua) -- China and Cambodia on Friday expressed strong opposition to trade protectionism and reaffirmed their commitment to a multilateral trading system centered on the World Trade Organization (WTO). The commitment was underscored in a joint statement issued when Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his state visit to Cambodia, where the two countries highlighted their mutual goal of building an all-weather China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era and implementing three China-proposed global initiatives.
PHNOM PENH, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia recorded a continued increase in the number of Chinese tourists to its famed Angkor Archeological Park in the first quarter of 2025, said an official report on Friday. A total of 30,509 Chinese tourists visited the Angkor during the January-March period this year, up 38 percent from 22,095 over the same period last year, said the state-owned Angkor Enterprise's report.
This photo taken on April 17, 2025 shows the launch ceremony of the Cambodian version of "Classics Quoted by Xi Jinping" in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On the occasion of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Cambodia, a TV program -- the Cambodian version of "Classics Quoted by Xi Jinping" was launched on TV here on Thursday.
BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping's just-concluded Southeast Asia tour focused on good-neighborly relations and promoted mutually beneficial cooperation, and achieved a complete success, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said during a press briefing that Xi's trip to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia from Monday to Friday was the first overseas tour of the Chinese head of state this year.
In June 2024, as China and Malaysia celebrated the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties, both countries agreed to jointly nominate lion dance for the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Today, more and more young people are learning and passing on the art of lion dance, which has become a shared cultural symbol between the two nations.
