President calls on envoys to forge deeper friendships

From Wednesday through Thursday, another major meeting for the nation's diplomacy — the Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs — convened in Beijing.

Xi said the conference has set out the goals, principles and basic tasks of the work for foreign affairs, and all diplomats should earnestly carry them out and make new achievements.

He called on diplomats to hold high the banner of building a global community with a shared future, and "continuously break new ground for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics".