Congratulations to Putin for his re-election as President of Russia

On March 18, President Xi Jinping called Putin to congratulate him on his re-election as President of the Russian Federation.

Xi Jinping pointed out that in recent years, the Russian people have united as one to overcome challenges and move forward steadily on the road to national development and revitalization. Your re-election fully reflects the support of the Russian people for you. I believe that under your leadership, Russia will be able to achieve greater achievements in national development and construction. China attaches great importance to the development of China-Russia relations and is willing to maintain close communication with Russia to promote the sustained, healthy, stable and in-depth development of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era to the benefit of the two countries and their peoples.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated on the 18th that Russia-China relations will continue to deepen and develop, achieve new achievements, and benefit the people of both countries.

In the early morning of the 18th local time, Putin delivered a speech at the campaign headquarters, thanking voters for their support. When accepting questions from Xinhua News Agency reporters, he said that after years of development, Russia-China relations are very stable and highly complementary.

Putin pointed out that Russia and China have many points of convergence in economic, diplomatic and other fields. As far as the development of the Eurasian region is concerned, Russia-China relations are an important stabilizing factor, and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative proposed by China is very important.

Putin spoke positively of China's development achievements. He believes that China is achieving rapid development with great confidence and transforming into an innovative economy; China is increasingly active on the international stage and has achieved great success, and has many friends around the world.

Putin emphasized that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China; those attempts to provoke provocations around Taiwan and take various measures to retard China's development will undoubtedly fail completely.

According to data released by the Russian Central Election Commission in the early morning of the 18th local time, of the 85% of votes that have been counted in this presidential election, Putin is significantly ahead of other candidates with 87.19% of the votes, and has actually won the presidential election.