Zhao said that this year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. Over the past 60 years, the China-France relations have withstood the test of vicissitudes in the international landscape, and maintained long-term and stable development. Faced with profound changes unseen in a century, the Chinese side is willing to work with the French side to stick to the original intention of establishing diplomatic ties, enhance mutual understanding and friendship, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, and write a splendid chapter for China-France relations in the next 60 years.

The French side highly praised China's historic achievements and expressed the willingness to take the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and China and the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism as opportunities to deepen traditional friendship between France and China, enhance exchanges and cooperation in various fields and jointly push for greater development of bilateral relations in the new historical stage.

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