Visit highlighted shared values

Beijing and Seoul have reached a consensus on promoting the Korean Peninsula's denuclearization and suppressing Japanese rightist forces

Chinese President Xi Jinping's two-day visit to the Republic of Korea, starting Thursday, featured five "firsts" highlighting its strategic and diplomatic significance: It was his first state visit to Seoul as president and his first visit to a single country as president; it was also the first state visit of a Chinese leader to Seoul before making a trip to Pyongyang; and Xi was accompanied by a Chinese economic mission involving nearly 300 entrepreneurs, the largest in China's diplomatic history; and it witnessed an unprecedented high-level forum on bilateral economic and trade cooperation in Seoul that was attended by around 500 enterprisers from both countries.

Judging from all the achievements this visit has made and entails in the long run, it is fair to say that the Beijing-Seoul strategic partnership will be enhanced.