At the invitation of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath, NORODOM Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, His Excellency XI Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, paid a state visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia from 17 to 18 April 2025. During the visit, President Xi Jinping had a separate royal audience with His Majesty the King of Cambodia and Her Majesty Queen Mother NORODOM Monineat Sihanouk. He met with Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN Sen, President of the Senate and held talks with Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei HUN Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

This milestone visit not only reaffirmed the unwavering commitment to the iron-clad friendship between Cambodia and China, but also further strengthened and deepened the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and win-win cooperation between the two countries. The visit has injected new momentum into building of an all-weather Cambodia-China Community with a Shared Future in the New Era with high quality, high-level, and high standard. To this end, both sides expressed commitment to ensuring effective implementation of the Diamond cooperation framework, and accelerating the building of the "Industrial and Technological Corridor™ and "Fish and Rice Corridor".

On political cooperation, both sides acknowledged the crucial importance of exchanges at all levels in nurturing the long-standing traditional friendship,and strategic mutual trust. They expressed common desire to enhance these exchanges and to promote dialogue and cooperation across all relevant institutions of the two countries, including between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Detense.They spoke highly of the current joint effort to fostering warm relations and to expanding mutually beneficial cooperation in all fields.

Both sides reaffirmed staunch mutual support for each other's core interests.The Cambodian side reiterated its resolute adherence to the one-China policy and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory. Cambodia also expressed opposition to any attempts of interference in the internal affairs of China, emphasizing that the issues of Xinjiang, Xizang, Hong Kong and Taiwan are purely domestic matters. The Chinese side reaffirmed its resolute support for Cambodia to independently pursue a development path suited to its national characteristics, and to safeguard national sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity as well as to play a more active and significant role in regional and international affairs. Both sides commit not to allow any hostile activities to be conducted on the territory of one country against the other.

On development cooperation, trade and investment, the Cambodian side highly commended the outstanding socio-economic achievements of China and applauded the country's steady advancement toward the building of a modern socialist country and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Chinese side applauded Cambodia's remarkable achievements in maintaining political stability, promoting economic growth, improving people's livelihoods and expressed strong support for Cambodia's endeavor to achieve the status of a high-income country by2050. For greater progress, both sides agreed to deepen synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Pentagonal Strategy.

Both sides agreed to work together to build a secure and stable industrial and supply chain. They also committed to supporting the development of a high-standard economic and trade cooperation zone, as well as promoting the construction of essential supporting infrastructure, including transportation systems, power and optical cable networks, warehousing and logistic facilities.

The Chinese side reaffirmed its continued support for the development of Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone to drive the development of Preah Sihanouk province, and pledged to encourage more capable Chinese enterprises to invest in Cambodia. Furthermore, the Chinese side also expressed strong support for Cambodia's efforts to advance the Funan Techo Integrated Water Resources Management Project.

Both sides firmly committed to upholding rules-based multilateral trading system that is open, transparent, inclusive, and non-discriminatory, while jointly promoting the continuous advancement of WTO rules, as well as trader amer investment liberaliation and facilitation. They agreed to continue to give full play Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, ASEAN-China Free Trade Area, and actively promote the signing of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area 3.0 Upgrade Protocol.

On defense and security cooperation, both sides agreed to further strengthen the cooperation mechanism between the armed forces of the two countries, maintain frequent exchanges of visit at various levels, and increase cooperation activities including in training and joint exercises such as on emergency rescue and disaster relief and improvement in medical and logistic services, among others.

The Chinese side applauded Cambodia's efforts in clamping down on illegalonline gambling and online fraud and committed to strengthening coordination and cooperation in law enforcement to combat cross-border crimes, including illegal trans-boundary gambling, illicit drug trafficking, people smuggling, and counterfeiting.

On human security, both sides acknowledged the global threat posed by climate change and committed to strengthening environmental protection, advancing clean energy collaboration, including hydropower, solar and wind power. Cambodia highly appreciated China's assistance in funding, personnel training and mine clearing equipment to support achievement of Cambodia's goal of Mine/ERW-impact-free Cambodia. Both sides agreed to deepen exchanges and cooperation in traditional medicine, medical management, medical personnel training, disease control and other areas of health including supports for health emergency facilities.

On people to people exchange and culture, the Chinese side pledged to provide more scholarships and deepen cooperation with Cambodia to increase employment and promote entrepreneurship. Both sides agreed to designate the year 2025 as "Cambodia-China Year of Tourism" and to encourage their citizens to travel between the two countries. The two sides will jointly develop tourism routes, enhance tourism destination promotion, and strengthen cooperation in tourism safety. Efforts will also be made to advance the preservation and restoration programs of the ancient Royal Palace Ruins in Angkor as well as Prasat Preah Vihear and other cultural heritages. Furthermore, both sides will set up a mechanism to facilitate regular exchanges between youth affairs departments, and youth federations of the two countries, and to deepen cooperation between think tanks and sister-cities, with a view to foster Cambodia-China friendship.

On international cooperation, both sides exchanged views on regional and global issues of common interest and concerns, and committed to strengthening cooperation under multilateral framework and to jointly contribute to world peace, stability and prosperity. Cambodian side affirmed support for the Global Development Initiative (GDI), Global Security Initiative (GSI) and Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), and praised the Chinese commitment to open regionalism, upholding ASEAN centrality, effort to advance ASEAN-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, the building of ASEAN-China Community with a Shared Future and a Community, with Shared Future of Peace and Prosperity among Mekong-Lancang countries.

Both sides hailed the successful State Visit by President XI Jinping, which resulted in the signing of thirty-seven cooperative documents covering multiple areas, including on GSI cooperation promotion, education and human resources development, agriculture, industrial and supply chains, development assistance, customs, quarantine, health, tourism, and media affairs. This number does not include several public-private and business-to-business documents signed on major projects, including Funan Techo Integrated Water Resources Management Project, Construction of a 900 MW LPG power-plant in Koh Kong, and Railway Project Strategic Partnership.

As an outcome of the visit, the joint Statement between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the People's Republic of China on Building an All-weather Cambodia-China Community with a Shared Future in the New Era and Implementing the Three Global Initiatives, will be released at the end of the visit.

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