China-LatAm Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership

(Foreign Affairs in the New Era)

Updated:2020-01-19 | By:China.org.cn

China-LatAm Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership

During his visit to Brazil in July 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with the state leaders of 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Initiated by China, this was the first meeting between Chinese and LatAm leaders. They discussed cooperation for common development, and decided to establish a comprehensive cooperative partnership featuring equality, mutual benefit and common development. They announced the decision to set up the Forum of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (China-CELAC Forum), setting the course for overall cooperation.

Xi elaborated on China's policies toward Latin America and the Caribbean, and proposed building a bilateral relationship with five salient features - sincerity and mutual trust in the political field, win-win cooperation on the economic front, mutual learning in culture, close coordination in international affairs, and mutual reinforcement between China's cooperation with the region as a whole and its ties with each individual country. He depicted a "1+3+6" framework of cooperation: guided by the "1" document of the China-Latin American and Caribbean Countries Cooperation Plan (2015-2019); utilizing the "3" driving forces of trade, investment and financial cooperation; and identifying energy and resources, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, scientific and technological innovation, and information technology as the "6" priority fields.

On January 8, 2015, the first ministerial meeting of the China-CELAC Forum opened in Beijing, turning bilateral cooperation from a concept to reality.

On January 22, 2018, the second ministerial meeting opened in Santiago, Chile. The attendees discussed how to align each other's development strategies and promote pragmatic cooperation in all fields under the Belt and Road framework, and to find new opportunities for development and win-win results.

谱写中拉全面合作伙伴关系新篇章

2014年7月,习近平访问巴西期间,在中方倡议下,中拉领导人举行首次会晤,习近平同11个拉美和加勒比国家领导人共商合作,共谋发展,一致决定建立平等互利、共同发展的中拉全面合作伙伴关系,共同宣布成立中拉论坛,开启了中拉整体合作进程。习近平阐述了新形势下中国对拉政策主张,提出构建政治上真诚互信、经贸上合作共赢、人文上互学互鉴、国际事务中密切协作、整体合作和双边关系相互促进的中拉关系五位一体新格局,提出打造“1+3+6” 合作新框架。“1” 是一个规划,即《中国与拉美和加勒比国家合作规划(2015-2019)》,“3”是三大引擎,即贸易、投资、金融合作,“6”是六大领域,即能源资源、基础设施建设、农业、制造业、科技创新、信息技术。2015年1月8日,中拉论坛首届部长级会议在北京开幕,向世界发出中拉深化合作、携手发展的积极信号,标志着双方整体合作由构想变为现实。2018年1月22日,中拉论坛第二届部长级会议在智利首都圣地亚哥举行,双方探讨了在“一带一路”框架内实现中拉发展战略对接,用共建“一带一路”的理念、原则和合作方式推动中拉各领域务实合作,携手开创发展新机遇,谋求发展新动力,拓展发展新空间, 实现优势互补、互利共赢。