Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday published a signed article titled May the Ship of China-Malaysia Friendship Sail Toward an Even Brighter Future in Malaysian media outlets, consisting of Sin Chew Daily, The Star and Sinar Harian ahead of his arrival in Malaysia for a state visit.The following is the complete text of the article: May the Ship of China-Malaysia Friendship Sail Toward an Even Brighter FutureXi JinpingAt the invitation of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, I will quickly pay a state visit to Malaysia.
This will be my 2nd visit to your gorgeous country in 12 years.
I look forward to experiencing Malaysias amazing development and change personally, and meeting with Malaysian good friends to celebrate our relationship and prepare for future cooperation.China and Malaysia are friendly neighbors throughout the sea.
The Maritime Silk Road stood witness to the millennium-old friendly exchanges between our nations.
As a Malay saying puts it, air dicincang tidak akan putus, or water cant be cut apart.
Through the ages, such strong bonds of relationship in between our peoples have actually grown from strength to strength.
Over 1,300 years earlier, Chinese Buddhist monk Yijing of the Tang Dynasty took a trip to the Malay Peninsula on his pilgrimage voyage and produced the earliest understood composed account of the ancient kingdom of Kedah.
More than 600 years ago, Chinese navigator and explorer Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty and his fleet called at Malacca throughout 5 of his seven historic expeditions to the ocean.
His visits planted seeds of peace and friendship.
To this day, the Sam Po Kong Temple, Bukit Cina, and Princess Hang Li Pohs Well withstand as a living testimony to the local communitys long lasting veneration of the legendary Chinese navigator.
Some 80 years earlier, when the Chinese Peoples War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression reached a crucial juncture, the Nanyang Volunteer Drivers and Mechanics from Malaysia braved enormous dangers to reach Chinas Yunnan Province, and assisted keep the Burma Road functional, as it was an important lifeline of Chinas wartime products.
Today this exceptional story of nerve still echoes in the hearts of both individuals.
As we honor our shared past and embrace the future, our two nations should work together to give fresh momentum to our ship of friendship that has actually sailed through the long river of history, and guarantee that it advances progressively towards brighter horizons.We must keep a firm grip on the strategic helm that guides our ship of relationship.
Fifty-one years earlier, breaking through the gloom of the Cold War, leaders of China and Malaysia decided to establish diplomatic relations, pioneering a groundbreaking new chapter in relations between China and ASEAN countries.
China and Malaysia have actually considering that respected each others advancement courses while maintaining tactical independence.
We have supplied mutual assistance on issues essential to our particular core interests and on our significant concerns, setting an excellent model for 2 nations to prosper together through equally useful cooperation.
In 2023, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and I settled on developing the China-Malaysia neighborhood with a shared future.
The decision marked a brand-new milestone in the bilateral relations.
China and Malaysia should boost strategic communication, increase shared political trust, follow through on the Belt and Road cooperation strategy between the 2 federal governments, strengthen the synergy in between our advancement methods, expand experience sharing on national governance, and promote our bilateral relations through high-standard tactical cooperation.We must broaden results-oriented cooperation which works as the ballast that steadies our ship of friendship.
In 2024, China-Malaysia trade reached 212 billion United States dollars, up by almost 1,000 times the level at the inception of our diplomatic relations.
China has been Malaysias biggest trading partner for 16 successive years.
Malaysian durians can now be provided straight from orchards to Chinese supermarkets within 24 hours, and they are tremendously popular among Chinese customers.
To date, the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park has received a total financial investment of over 11 billion yuan (1.5 billion United States dollars), and will create numerous long-term tasks when all its planned jobs are completed with production reaching their created capacity.
Our bilateral cooperation potential is being gradually understood in the digital economy, green development, industrial financial investment and transportation infrastructure building.
We need to deepen equally useful partnership, advance top quality Belt and Road cooperation, and strengthen cooperation on industrial and supply chains, with a concentrate on the digital economy, green economy, blue economy and tourist economy, so regarding advance modernization of both countries.We must sustain the engines of people-to-people exchanges to propel our ship of friendship forward.
China and Malaysia have equally approved visa exemption to each others nationals.
The year 2024 saw almost 6 million mutual gos to in between the 2 countries, which went beyond the pre-COVID level.
Malaysia, genuinely Asia, the tourist promotional advertisement that highlights the distinct appeal of Malaysias culture, history and landscape, has inspired numerous Chinese tourists to visit Malaysia for leisure getaways or sightseeing.
More and more Malaysian tourists are taking a trip to China to appreciate its historical tradition and experience its contemporary ambiance.
I hope our peoples will visit each other as frequently as household.
Our two countries should promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges so regarding improve good understanding and friendship between our 2 individuals, specifically the younger generation.We should harness the momentum of cooperation at the multilateral level.
China and Malaysia are both significant developing countries in the Asia-Pacific.
We are also emerging market economies and members of the Global South.
We have comparable positions on safeguarding global fairness and justice and on advancing open and inclusive advancement.
We have actually maintained close partnership within multilateral systems, consisting of East Asia cooperation, APEC and the UN.
China invites Malaysia as a BRICS partner country.
Its inclusion in the organization lines up with the historic pattern of the Global Souths pursuit of solidarity-driven cumulative development and serves the common interests of developing countries.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the success of the Chinese Peoples War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the 80th anniversary of the starting of the UN, and the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.
As we honor these milestones, our two nations need to enhance shared cooperation in international and local affairs, and champion the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the Bandung Spirit.
We must uphold the UN-centered worldwide system and the worldwide order underpinned by worldwide law, and promote fairer and more fair international governance.
We need to support the multilateral trading system, keep international industrial and supply chains stable, and keep a worldwide environment of openness and cooperation.As a community with a shared future, China and Malaysia share the smooth times and the rough, stand unified in peace and crisis, and thrive and sustain together.
Share weal and trouble, a popular saying in both nations, defines the very essence of such a relationship.
We must remain ahead of the times, surge forward with unyielding resolve, and collectively construct a brighter future of development, development and prosperity.Having weathered storms of the times, the friendly relations and cooperation between China and ASEAN nations have emerged stronger and more durable.
China was the first ASEAN dialogue partner to accede to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, and the very first to develop a free trade area and a comprehensive strategic collaboration with ASEAN.
China-ASEAN cooperation is the most results-oriented and efficient in the region.
China and ASEAN gathered in solidarity in action to several challenges, such as the Asian monetary crisis, the global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and the growing headwinds against economic globalization.
Our bilateral cooperation is more robust than ever.
In 2024, China-ASEAN trade exceeded 980 billion United States dollars, making us each others largest trading partner for five consecutive years.
The Version 3.0 China-ASEAN Free Trade Area upgrade settlements have actually substantially concluded.
More and more premium specialty items from ASEAN countries are now discovering their way into millions of Chinese families, while Chinese literary works, animations, films and TV productions are increasingly captivating audiences in ASEAN countries with the rich tapestry of Chinese culture and the warm pulse of modern life in China.China securely supports ASEAN unity and community-building, and supports ASEAN centrality in the regional architecture.
China totally supports Malaysia in its function as the ASEAN chair for 2025 and looks forward to Malaysia acting as a stronger bridge in between the two sides as the nation planner for China-ASEAN Dialogue Relations.
Through its modernization, China is striving to build itself into an excellent contemporary socialist nation in all respects, and advancing the renewal of the Chinese country on all fronts.
Chinese modernization follows a path of tranquil development.
China will promote global peace, development and shared success with other countries through mutually useful cooperation.
The Chinese economy is built on a strong foundation, with multiple strengths, high strength and huge potential for development.
The core conditions supporting its long-lasting favorable development stay firmly in place, with the underlying upward trend the same.
China has set its target for financial development at around 5 percent for 2025.
We will continue to pursue premium advancement, broaden high-standard opening up, share advancement opportunities with other nations, and bring higher stability and certainty to the local and worldwide economy.Unity brings strength, and cooperation leads to mutual success.
China will work with Malaysia and other ASEAN nations to fight the undercurrents of geopolitical and camp-based fight, along with the countercurrents of unilateralism and protectionism, in keeping with the historic trend of peace and development.
We must brave the waves ahead and advance the high-level strategic China-Malaysia neighborhood with a shared future, and collectively build a more powerful China-ASEAN community with a shared future.