An article by Chinese President Xi Jinping entitled Together We Strive, Together We Thrive: Toward a Stable and Sustainable China-Cambodia Community with a Shared Future in the New Era was published in Cambodian media outlets, Khmer Times, Jian Hua Daily and Fresh News, on Thursday ahead of Xis arrival in Cambodia for a state visit.The following is the full text of the post: Together We Strive, Together We Thrive: Toward a Stable and Sustainable China-Cambodia Community with a Shared Future in the New EraXi JinpingI am very happy to go to Cambodia on the event of the Khmer New Year.
For me, it feels like going to the home of a good friend.
I want to extend my hottest New Year greetings to our brothers and siblings in Cambodia.
This is my second see to your country in nine years.
I regards hope this visit will spearhead development in developing a China-Cambodia community with a shared future. & ensp; Our community with a shared future is deeply rooted in the historical legacy of good-neighborly relations.
Thanks to our geographical distance, our friendly exchange spans two millennia of our shared history.
Throughout Chinas Tang Dynasty (618-907), members of Chenlas royal family visited Chinas then capital city of Changan (todays Xian in Shaanxi Province), where they were warmly gotten as Binhan, implying guest of honor.
In the following centuries, the ties in between the 2 nations grew ever stronger and better.
Chinese ceramics and lacquerware were shipped to Cambodia through the maritime silk road, while Cambodian spices, raw silk and other specialty products were extremely popular among Chinese individuals, as evidenced by the Bayon Temple bas-reliefs, which catch the vibrant trade that grew between the 2 countries in history.
Numerous prominent Cambodian monks took a trip to China to spread out Buddhist teachings and scriptures.
The Customs of Cambodia, a book written by Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), is a crucial literature for research studies of Cambodian history.
The terrific Chinese and Khmer civilizations have grown together, motivating each other through centuries. & ensp; Our community with a shared future is specified by our mutual commitment to friendship and righteousness.
The relationship was created by His Majesty Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk and Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai, among the older generations of Chinese leaders.
Seventy years back, His Majesty Samdech Preah Sihanouk and Premier Zhou satisfied at the Bandung Conference and instantly bonded like old pals.
Defying all odds, Cambodia developed diplomatic relations with individualss Republic of China in 1958.
China stood steadfastly with Cambodia in its simply resist foreign intrusion and for national sovereignty and self-reliance.
Together, the 2 countries have shared the rough times and the smooth and regularly supported each other in times of need.
His Majesty Samdech Preah Sihanouk lived in China for almost 40 years, accepting China as his home far from home.
He had written and made up numerous songs in tribute to the China-Cambodia friendship, such as Nostalgia of China .
His songs are still widely sung today.
His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni and Her Majesty Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk visit China almost every year.
We have met often times, sharing warm conversations about our families and life.
In 2020, I presented Her Majesty Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk with the Friendship Medal of the Peoples Republic of China.
This deeply meaningful medal embodies the profound relationship of the Chinese people toward the people of Cambodia.
Upon the break out of COVID-19, the pandemic of the century, then Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen braved the snow and wind to visit Beijing.
China dispatched medical teams to supply emergency situation assistance to Cambodia.
The two countries provided each other with a large amount of medical products.
In the face of complicated local and worldwide developments, we support each other in safeguarding our respective core interests, and interact to support international fairness and justice.
Our two nations have created an ironclad relationship. & ensp; Our community with a shared future is powered by equality and shared benefit.
For several years, China has actually been Cambodias largest trading partner and biggest source of financial investment, and our commercial and supply chain cooperation has continued to deepen.
Thanks to the China-Cambodia free trade contract, premium farming items from Cambodia, consisting of banana, mango and longan, are finding their way into Chinese homes.
The Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, established through China-Cambodia cooperation, has drawn more than 200 worldwide companies to establish operations, laying a solid groundwork for Cambodias industrial modernization.
China-supported facilities tasks, such as Cambodias first expressway, very first viaduct throughout a river valley, biggest power plant and largest arena, have brought the Cambodian individuals concrete benefits and strongly reinforced the long-lasting advancement of the nation.
Chinese professionals have actually assisted create Cambodias modern-day farming advancement plans on the basis of their extensive school trip in the country.
The China-Cambodia Diamond Hexagon cooperation has boosted Cambodias development.Our neighborhood with a shared future is founded upon inclusiveness and mutual learning.
Over the past 30 years, China has actually sent lots of experts across varied fields -- including archaeology, geological expedition, cultural heritage, history, architecture and the arts -- who have dedicated themselves to the remediation of Chau Say Tevoda Temple, Ta Keo Temple and the ancient Royal Palace of Angkor.
They have actually assisted bring restored splendor to the Angkor tradition, a gem of human civilizations.
A growing number of Chinese travelers are traveling to Cambodia to experience its rich history and culture while a growing number of Cambodian buddies are discovering Chinese to better value the appeal of the time-honored Chinese civilization and understand Chinese modernization.
Over the years, with Chinese assistance, a number of relationship roadways have been developed and clean water-pumping wells drilled to improve the well-being of local people.
The project of the China-Cambodia Friendship Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Village is finished.
Thanks to the treatment by conventional Chinese medicine teams, a hearing-impaired girl articulated Mama for the very first time, and a wheelchair user got back on his feet.For almost half a century, Asia has actually taken pleasure in general peace and stability and rapid financial growth, producing the Asian miracle in the history of global development.
As changes hidden in a century accelerate, Asia now stands at a new starting point of cumulative increase.
Consistently following the principle of amity, sincerity, mutual advantage and inclusiveness and the policy of establishing friendship and collaboration with neighboring nations, China will deepen relationship and cooperation with them, extend the benefits of Chinese modernization to them, and work with them to collectively support regional peace and stability and to advance modernization in Asia.As crucial members of the huge Asian family, China and Cambodia must ride the tide of history and observe our individualss goals.
We must make every effort together and flourish together.
We should act as leaders and pacesetters in translating the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative from vision into reality.
We should work together to promote the steady and sustained progress in building the China-Cambodia neighborhood with a shared future in the new era.Let us bring our shared political trust to a greater level.
We must preserve frequent high-level exchanges and prepare a strategic plan for the China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new period.
China securely supports Cambodia in separately selecting an advancement path that fits its own conditions, in safeguarding its national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and in playing a higher function on the international phase.
To collectively protect our political security, we should enhance communication on matters of strategic value such as diplomacy and national defense, and resolutely oppose any efforts by external forces to interfere in our internal affairs, plant discord or weaken China-Cambodia friendship.Let us broaden our mutually helpful cooperation of greater quality.
We should prioritize development and keep individuals at the.
To advance modernization in both nations, we need to take full advantage of the role of the China-Cambodia Intergovernmental Coordination Committee, forge higher synergy in between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Pentagonal Strategy, and advance the development of the Industrial and Technological Corridor and the Fish and Rice Corridor.
We must also jointly protect the multilateral trading system, advance industrial and supply chain cooperation, improve cooperation in sophisticated manufacturing, green advancement, digital economy and other areas, and make the Diamond Hexagon cooperation shine much better and stronger.Let us work together to make sure higher security.
To foster a safe environment for our particular development, we ought to strengthen exchange and cooperation in combating external disturbance and separatist activities.
We must defend against and withstand color revolutions, reinforce joint exercises and training, emergency management and security cooperation on significant Belt and Road jobs, and punish telecom and cyber fraud and other criminal activities.
We must remain devoted to the vision of common, detailed, cooperative and sustainable security, construct consensus on security ideas and techniques, and jointly promote peace and harmony in the region and the world at large.Let us have more frequent people-to-people exchanges.
We ought to support uniformity and consistency, have more cultural discussions, increase experience sharing on state governance, expand varied kinds of cooperation in areas of culture, tourist, youth exchange and security and restoration of cultural heritages, and promote people-to-people connectivity.
We should promote the Asian values and humanitys common values.Let us enhance strategic coordination of greater requirements.
We should draw wisdom from the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the Bandung Spirit, move faster to build a neighborhood of shared future of peace and success amongst Lancang-Mekong countries, and collaborate toward a peaceful, safe and protected, prosperous, stunning, amicable and harmonious Asian home.
Together we should stand versus hegemonism, power politics and camp-based conflict, and protect the shared interests of our two nations and other establishing nations.
We should promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a generally helpful and inclusive financial globalization, venture to secure world peace and stability and worldwide fairness and justice, jointly oppose protectionism, and defend a worldwide environment of openness and cooperation.As a Chinese verse goes, True relationship, like improved gold, withstands all tests of time.
I strongly think that with our joint efforts, the China-Cambodia ironclad friendship, which has actually been tempered through trials of time and storms of hardship, will remain true to its initial purpose.
China will deal with Cambodia to protect peace, pursue development and accomplish shared prosperity, to make solid progress in developing the China-Cambodia neighborhood with a shared future in the new age, and to bring greater stability and certainty to this unstable world.(Cover: Flags of China and Cambodia in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 17, 2025./ CMG)