<img src='https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-11-11/President-Xi-replies-to-friendly-personages-in-Brazil-1yrwpuAn8R2/img/267182f2a24b40dcb15d465c55a686d4/267182f2a24b40dcb15d465c55a686d4.png' alt='Lush green trees surround houses in the Pinheiros neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 5, 2023. /CFP'
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently replied to letters from friendly personages from all walks of life in Brazil, encouraging them to continuously contribute to the cause of China-Brazil friendship.
In his reply, Xi said that he is glad to see that the China-Brazil friendship has been passed on from generation to generation, adding that over the past 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties, China and Brazil have marched forward hand in hand, sharing weal and woe, and have forged a friendship spanning mountains and oceans.
China is willing to work with Brazil to enrich the friendship between the two countries in the new era, make China-Brazil relations a good example of solidarity, coordination, common development and mutual benefit among major developing countries, and make greater contributions to the cause of peace and progress of mankind, Xi said.
He said Brazilian friends are welcome to visit China more often and experience for themselves the myriad sights of Chinese modernization.
Xi voiced the hope that people from all walks of life in the two countries will play a positive role in promoting the continuous development of China-Brazil relations and making the China-Brazil friendship flow unceasingly like the Yangtze River and the Amazon River.
Recently, Enrique Teixeira, former deputy mayor of Campinas, Sao Paulo State, and more than 100 friendly personages from the Brazil-China Friendship Association, Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo State University, and the Copacabana Fort Orchestra in Rio de Janeiro wrote to Xi respectively, thanking the Chinese government, enterprises and universities for their contributions to China-Brazil friendly exchanges and the improvement of local people’s livelihood.