On December 15, 2015, President Xi Jinping met at Wuzhen of Zhejiang Province with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev of Russia.

Xi Jinping pointed out that since the beginning of this year, the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination has been maintaining high-level development and bilateral cooperation in various areas has been yielding new results. President Vladimir Putin and I have reached a consensus that no matter how the international and regional situation change, we will stick to the policy of consolidating and deepening China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination, devotion to the goal of realizing common development and rejuvenation of both countries and determination of jointly safeguarding international justice and fairness as well as world peace and stability. It is hoped that in the coming new year, both sides will continue to make concerted efforts and promote better development of China-Russia relations so as to bring more tangible benefits to both peoples.

Xi Jinping stressed that at present, the economic growth of both countries is at a critical period of transformation and restructuring, during which both sides should, in the principle of strategic mutual trust and spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation and centering around the alignment and cooperation between the building of Silk Road Economic Belt and Eurasian Economic Union, seize the new opportunity and the new situation to deeply explore new ideas and new measures of expanding cooperation in such areas as economy and trade, investment, agriculture, infrastructure construction, people-to-people and cultural exchanges and local affairs, thus strive fora new pattern of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation with deep integration.

Dmitry Medvedev noted that the Russian side is satisfied with the high-level development of Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination, and pleased with the increasingly closer bilateral cooperation in various areas including economy and trade, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges. Russia is actively devoted to the alignment between development strategies of Eurasian Economic Union and Silk Road Economic Belt and stands ready to deepen cooperation with China in infrastructure, energy, finance, investment, information network and other areas. The Russian side is willing to, together with the Chinese side, maintain close communication and coordination in international affairs and strengthen cooperation within the frameworks of Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu, Yang Jiechi and others attended the meeting.