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Current Review | Leading the Cooperation between the Two Countries Forward with the "Sino French Spirit"

2024-01-29   

For 60 years, as the two major civilizations of the East and the West, China and France have gone through an extraordinary process of communication. Over the past 60 years, the relationship between the two countries has gone through ups and downs, always at the forefront of China Western relations, bringing benefits to the two peoples, contributing to world peace, stability, and development, and highlighting its strategic and leading role in a turbulent and changing world. Looking towards the future, the two countries will work together to create another brilliant future. As two historically rich countries, China and France are able to know each other, understand each other, and walk hand in hand. This is due to the spirit of independence, initiative, and daring to be the first. It is a mutual appreciation and attraction between the two civilizations, and it is also a historical inevitability. On January 27, 1964, the governments of China and France issued a joint communiqu é: "The governments of the People's Republic of China and the French Republic have unanimously decided to establish diplomatic relations. The two governments have agreed to appoint ambassadors within three months." The short two sentence communiqu é broke through the ice of the Cold War and shook the whole world, earning the international public the nickname "diplomatic nuclear explosion.". The Chairman of the French Constitutional Council and former Prime Minister Fabius believes that the reason why China and France dare to take the lead in establishing diplomatic relations is because both countries pursue independent foreign policies and are committed to maintaining true multilateralism and world peace. "When we come to China, we will find that it is a country full of hope." On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, Natalie de Gaulle, the great granddaughter of former French President Charles de Gaulle, gave an interview to Xinhua News Agency reporters in Paris, France, talking about her view of the 60 year relationship between France and China, and telling her story with China. Over the past 60 years, China and France have always adhered to an independent and independent strategic choice, committed to achieving common development through mutually beneficial cooperation, promoting mutual learning among civilizations through equal exchanges, and addressing global challenges through multilateral coordination. The relationship between the two countries has created multiple "firsts": France is the first Western major country to formally establish diplomatic relations with New China, the first Western major country to establish comprehensive strategic partnership and institutional strategic dialogue with China, the first Western country to engage in civilian nuclear energy cooperation with China, and the first country to hold cultural years and establish cultural centers with China. From opening the first direct flight route between China and Western countries to jointly exploring third-party markets, the two countries have adhered to the "Sino French spirit" of "independence, mutual understanding, foresight, and mutual benefit and win-win" and have always been at the forefront of Sino Western relations. For the past 60 years, China and France have adhered to mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, and economic and trade cooperation has become increasingly close. They have insisted on expanding the cake, gathering cooperation forces through openness, and sharing development opportunities. France is already China's third largest trading partner and third largest source of actual investment within the European Union. China is France's largest trading partner in Asia and the seventh largest in the world. Airbus aircraft occupy half of China's civil aviation industry, and "from French farms to Chinese dining tables" has become a golden signboard for Sino French cooperation. Chinese products such as mobile phones and electric vehicles are increasingly favored by French consumers, and France will serve as the guest of honor at the 2024 China International Trade in Services Fair and the 7th China International Import Expo. China and France not only have a deep foundation in traditional cooperation fields such as agriculture, aerospace, and civil nuclear energy, but also in service trade, green development, and technological innovation

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