Wang Yi, China's Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is on an official visit to Korea, met President Lee Jae-myung and said, "Thanks to President Lee's right choice, Korea-China relations have returned to a normal track."

Wang Yi, Chinese Communist Party Central Political Bureau Commissioner and Foreign Minister, holds a South Korea–China foreign ministers' meeting with Minister Cho Hyun at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the 19th. /Courtesy of News1

According to China's state-run Xinhua News Agency on the 20th, Director General Wang met the president at the Blue House that day. The president said, "I am pleased that Korea-China relations are rapidly improving." The president projected that the number of mutual visits by the two countries' people will exceed 10 million this year and said, "Expectations are high for strengthening comprehensive cooperation with China."

In response, Director General Wang said, "Since taking office, the president has made the right choice and pushed for Korea-China relations to return to a normal track." He added, "The fact that Korea-China relations have comprehensively recovered and made positive progress this year shows that a rational, pragmatic, and proactive policy toward China fully conforms to Korea's interests and the trend of the times."

Director General Wang said, "China will become the world's largest market going forward," adding, "We are willing to share development opportunities with all countries, especially neighboring countries." He asked the president to push ahead with a sustained, friendly policy toward China.

Director General Wang also urged the two countries to play a model role amid deepening fragmentation of the global economy and growing trade protectionism, calling for an early conclusion of the phase-two negotiations on the Korea-China free trade agreement (FTA). He argued that this should promote regional economic integration and advance inclusive and mutually beneficial economic globalization.

Meanwhile, Director General Wang paid an official visit to Korea on the 19th for the first time in about five years and is carrying out his schedule. He held an official dinner the previous afternoon with Cho Hyun, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that day, after meeting the president, he also held talks with Wi Sung-lac, director of the Office of National Security.

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