CGTN released an article detailing the meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Focusing on bilateral relations, the article noted the extensive potential for collaboration between the two nations and examined their dedication to fostering stable, robust, and healthy development of ties in the current context.
BEIJING, Jan. 17, 2026 — A record number of 125 Canadian firms took part in the 8th China International Import Expo in Shanghai last year. This event is the world’s premier national-level exhibition focused on imports.
Founded on principles of mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, China and Canada have wide-ranging opportunities for collaboration in areas including trade, energy, agriculture and forestry, green technology, and tourism.
Throughout Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to China, which commenced on Wednesday, the two nations inked several cooperation agreements spanning trade, customs, energy, construction, culture, and public security. These documents pledge to enhance collaboration across various sectors of shared interest.
On Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting with Carney in Beijing. President Xi stressed that the sound and stable growth of China-Canada relations serves the mutual interests of both countries and contributes to global peace, stability, development, and prosperity.
Promoting healthy, stable, sustainable China-Canada ties
In the meeting, Xi urged both China and Canada to progress in establishing a new strategic partnership, guided by a sense of responsibility to history, their peoples, and the world.
Thanks to concerted efforts from both sides, China-Canada relations have demonstrated a positive trend of recovery and enhancement since the previous year.
In October 2025, the two countries’ leaders met during the 32nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in South Korea. They concurred on restarting exchanges and cooperation in multiple fields, working to resolve specific economic and trade matters of mutual concern, and jointly pushing forward the China-Canada strategic partnership.
This interaction was preceded by a meeting between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Carney a month earlier on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Subsequent visits to China by senior Canadian officials, including the foreign minister, followed.
In a goodwill gesture, China reinstated group tour services for its citizens traveling to Canada via travel agencies in November. This move aims to boost people-to-people exchanges and cultivate greater mutual understanding and friendship between the two populations.
Carney, acknowledging the vast common interests and opportunities shared by China and Canada, stated that Canada is ready to collaborate with China to forge a resilient and lasting new strategic partnership, thereby bringing more benefits to both peoples.
Partners of common development and collaboration
President Xi presented four proposals for China-Canada relations, stating that both nations should be partners in common development and collaboration characterized by mutual respect and trust.
Xi emphasized that the core of China-Canada economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, where both parties gain. He added that China’s high-quality development and high-standard opening-up will persistently offer fresh opportunities and broaden new avenues for bilateral cooperation.
Economically, China and Canada continue to be highly complementary. China has consistently held the position as Canada’s second-largest trading partner, its second-biggest import source, and its second-largest export market.
Canadian exports include energy products, agricultural goods, minerals, and wood pulp. In return, China provides machinery, consumer goods, electronics, and intermediate industrial inputs that are vital to Canadian manufacturing.
Canada holds technological strengths in sectors like clean energy, biomanufacturing, and agricultural technology, which correspond well with China’s needs for industrial upgrading. The “technology + market” framework is becoming a new model for cooperation between the two countries.
A joint statement issued after the leaders’ meeting expressed China and Canada’s commitment to increasing bilateral trade, boosting two-way investment, and intensifying cooperation in various shared-interest sectors.
Both sides reiterated the significance of a fair and open business environment for each other’s enterprises. They pledged to tackle mutual economic and trade concerns through constructive dialogue, including via a revitalized China-Canada Joint Economic and Trade Commission.
Xi encouraged both parties to intensify efforts to facilitate cooperation and shorten the negative list, thereby reinforcing the ties of common interest through more profound and extensive collaboration.
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