The governments of Cuba and China They said Thursday that their relationships are “at their best.” They considered it in a joint statement, issued after the meeting between Presidents Miguel Díaz-Canel and Xi Jinping in Beijing.
In the statement, shared by official authorities and media, both leaders highlighted “the firm political will to move towards a higher level” of bilateral relations through the acceleration of the construction of a “community of the Cuba-China shared future.”
They also agreed to increase economic cooperation taking advantage of the opportunities derived from high quality development in China and the National Plan for Economic and Social Development of Cuba until 2030, an aspect in which the Cuban part declared that it is willing to “provide facilities and support”.
The Chinese part indicated that it supports “the effective insertion” of Cuba as a partner country in international economic-commercial association BRICs and the exploration of the possibilities of its cooperation with the new development bank of that group.
Joint declaration between the Republic of #Cuba and the Popular Republic #China on the acceleration of the construction of a community of the shared future between Cuba and China.
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– Foreign Ministry of Cuba (@cubaminrex) SEPTEMBER 4, 2025
Díaz-Canel and XI determined to deepen cooperation in the fields of cybersecurity, nanotechnology, life sciences, biomedicine, food production and agrotechnology, brain sciences, biodiversity, climate change, energy and the environment, digital transformation, robotics and automation.
They also agreed to continue promoting scientific and humanistic exchanges, the joint construction of laboratories and collaboration in technology transfer, in the context of the Action Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation of the Strip and the Route.
“Traditional friendship” and “fruitful results”
The two heads of state valued “highly traditional friendship” between both parties, and the “fruitful results” achieved in 65 years of diplomatic relations, and affirmed that they are “good friends, good comrades and good brothers.”
After their meeting, Díaz-Canel and XI signed several bilateral cooperation documents in areas such as local agriculture, practical cooperation and artificial intelligence, according to official media.
Havana and Beijing maintain close political and economic relations in which the Asian country stands out as one of the main strategic allies of the island.
China is currently the third most important commercial partner in Cuba in the world assets and Cuba is an important commercial partner of China in the Caribbean, he said A review In the newspaper Workers.
Cuba willing to “provide a better business environment to Chinese companies,” says Díaz Canel
According to the statistics of Chinese customs, from January to July 2025, the total value of the bilateral exchange of goods between China and Cuba reached 759 million US dollars, which represents an interannual increase of 73.3 percent.
Chinese exports to Cuba have doubled compared to the same period of the previous year, added the union medium.
At the moment, the urgent investments in the solar parks that are installed throughout the island come from Chinese credits that have not been officially revealed to this day, but they are Calculate By specialists that the international average cost of an installed capacity MW ranges between 800 thousand and one million dollars.
The previous visit from Díaz-Canel to China occurred in 2022, when it also met with XI.
The Cuban president arrived in Pekín after visiting Vietnam, where he participated in the events for the 80th anniversaries of the proclamation of independence, within the framework of a tour of Asia that will end in Laos.
EFE / Oncuba
