Chinese State Councilor Shen Yiqin and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova co-chaired the 25th session of the China-Russia Committee on Humanities Cooperation in Moscow on Monday, pledging to further boost people-to-people exchanges and cultural cooperation.
Shen, also the Chinese chairman of the China-Russia Committee on Humanities Cooperation, said that people-to-people exchanges constitute an important part of China-Russia relations.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin jointly attended the opening ceremony of the China-Russia Years of Culture and the special concert celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Russia in May this year, fully reflecting their high regard for China-Russia people-to-people exchanges, she said.
Under the strategic guidance of both leaders, China and Russia have continuously enriched the content of humanitarian cooperation, with more comprehensive cooperation plans, more robust communication mechanisms, more prominent leading brands, and deeper people-to-people exchanges, she said, adding that such endeavors have yielded a series of new achievements and made positive contributions to consolidating the social and public opinion foundation for the friendly relations between China and Russia through generations.
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