At midnight on October 24, 2024, President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing by special plane after attending the 16th BRICS Summit.

Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee Cai Qi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and other members of the entourage returned by the same plane.

Upon Xi Jinping's departure from Kazan, Head of the Republic of Tatarstan of the Russian Federation Rustam Minnikhanov and senior officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry saw him off at the airport.