BEIJING: Chinese language President Xi Jinping known as for higher cooperation with Serbia on synthetic intelligence, vitality, and infrastructure throughout talks with Aleksandar Vucic on Monday (Might 25).
The Serbian president is the newest in a string of international leaders to make the pilgrimage to Beijing in latest months because the world grapples with the financial fallout from the war in the Middle East.
Serbia has maintained shut ties to Beijing and benefited from a growth in Chinese language funding over the previous decade.
“The 2 sides ought to improve cooperation in rising fields equivalent to synthetic intelligence, the digital financial system, inexperienced vitality, and superior manufacturing,” Xi stated throughout talks with Vucic on the Nice Corridor of the Individuals, Chinese language state media reported.
They need to additionally cooperate on transportation and vitality infrastructure by China’s Belt and Highway Initiative, he stated.
Xi additionally known as for “real multilateralism” within the face of “turmoil” in worldwide affairs.
The 2 signed a slew of bilateral agreements on commerce, know-how, and training, and launched joint statements.
China is amongst Serbia’s high 5 traders, and Chinese language tasks at the moment underway embrace Belgrade’s metro system, a serious highway tunnel within the metropolis and a number of other bridges, in line with Serbia’s finance ministry.
China additionally constructed a high-speed rail line, which opened in October 2025.
Whereas Vucic has been to China a number of occasions for varied worldwide summits and boards, this newest journey marks his first official state go to to the nation.
Xi additionally awarded Vucic China’s “friendship medal” throughout his go to on Monday, in an indication of their shut ties.
