Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 17. On January 16, President Xi Jinping called Zoran Milanovich to congratulate him on his re-election as president of the Republic of Croatia.

Xi Jinping pointed out that China and Czech Republic have a deep traditional friendship, and the two countries are good friends and partners who respect and trust each other. In recent years, the two sides have jointly built the "Belt and Road" with high quality, promoted cooperation in various fields in the spirit of openness, mutual benefit and win-win, and the vitality of bilateral relations has been continuously revealed. I attach great importance to the development of China-Crosse relations and am willing to work with the President to promote the two countries to move forward hand in hand on the road to realizing their respective modernizations and open a new chapter in the comprehensive cooperative partnership between China and Crosse.