China welcomes new BRICS member, ready for greater cooperation: FM spokesman

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China welcomes new BRICS member, ready for greater cooperation: FM spokesman

2025-01-07 17:06 Last Updated At：21:07

China warmly welcomes the new member of BRICS and stands ready for greater BRICS cooperation in the future, Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.

Brazil, the BRICS chair for the year of 2025, released a statement on Monday announcing that Indonesia has become a full member of the BRICS.

Countries such as Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Cuba and Bolivia have become BRICS partners on the first day of 2025.

At a regular press conference in Beijing, Guo said, "China warmly welcomes the new member of the 'BRICS family'. The BRICS cooperation mechanism owes its birth to the historical trend of the collective rise of emerging markets and developing countries, which is in line with the expectations of the international community to maintain world peace, promote common development and improve global governance. In the nearly 20 years since its establishment, the BRICS grouping now represents nearly half of the world's population, approximately 30 percent of global GDP, and contributes more than 50 percent to global economic growth. The representativeness, appeal and influence of the BRICS cooperation mechanism have been increasing, turning it into a significant platform for promoting unity and cooperation in the Global South, as well as an important force for the reform of the global governance system."

"China is ready to work with other BRICS countries in the spirit of openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation to promote the high-quality development of the greater BRICS cooperation and jointly advocate an equal and orderly world multipolarization and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, so as to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The greater BRICS cooperation has a lot of potentials and a promising future," Guo noted.

China, Russia to enhance subnational ties through key cooperation platforms

2025-05-16 21:18 Last Updated At：21:37

China and Russia are set to further strengthen subnational cooperation through two key subnational mechanisms, the Yangtze-Volga Local cooperation and the Northeast-Far East cooperation, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said Friday.

Lin made the remarks at a press conference in Beijing, highlighting the role of the cooperation mechanisms in boosting bilateral economic and cultural ties.

"Under the strategic guidance of the two head of states, China-Russia relations have been moving forward on a high level and subnational cooperation has been advancing with wider scope and higher quality. The Yangtze-Volga cooperation council and the China-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Cooperation and Development of Northeast China and the Far East and Baikal Region of Russia, as two major subnational cooperation mechanisms between China and Russia, since their establishment have been operating with high efficiency and played an important role in promoting economic and trade cooperation as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges between relevant regions of China and Russia in a coordinated manner," Lin said.

"We believe that under the strategic guidance of the two head of states and with joint effort of both sides, subnational cooperation between China and Russia will continue to grow with vigor and vitality and inject more impetus to our effort of enriching the bilateral relationship, delivering more benefits to the two peoples and boosting our respective development and revitalization," said the spokesman.