Ambassador Zheng Zeguang made online video remarks on 7 June after arriving in London. He highlighted the two telephone conversations President Xi Jinping had with Prime Minister Boris Johnson last year, which “charted the course for further advancing our bilateral relations”. It is essential that the two sides follow through on the important common understandings between the leaders, and respect each other's core interests and major concerns.

Ambassador Zheng said that the two sides may deepen cooperation in trade, finance, innovation, people-to-people exchanges and other fields, and step up coordination on global issues such as fighting COVID-19, spurring global recovery and tackling climate change. The two sides also need to address their differences properly. These are the kind of efforts needed to ensure that China-UK relations will deliver more benefits to the two peoples and contribute still more to world peace and common development.