On April 14, 2011, President Hu Jintao met with Ukrainian Prime Minister Mikola Azarov in Sanya City of south China's Hainan Province. Azarov is here for a visit to China and to attend the annual meeting of the Boao Forum for Asia.

Hu pointed out that since the establishment of diplomatic ties 19 years ago, bilateral relations have been developing smoothly, with frequent high-level exchanges and increasing mutual political trust. The two countries have conducted fruitful cooperation on economy, trade, science, technology and aerospace. They have also offered mutual understanding, mutual support and maintained close coordination in international affairs. China attaches great importance to developing ties with Ukraine and understands and respects the development path and domestic and foreign policy chosen by the Ukrainian people based on their national conditions. China also appreciates Ukraine's adherence to the one-China policy.

Hu emphasized that currently China-Ukraine relations are at a new historical starting point and face unprecedented opportunities of development. China is ready to work with Ukraine to push bilateral ties to a new level. First, uplift the level of political relations. The leaders, legislative bodies, governments and political parties of the two countries should maintain close contacts to exchange views in a timely manner on major issues of common concern. Second, comprehensively advance pragmatic cooperation. China hopes to increase trade volume with Ukraine to 10 billion U.S. dollars by 2012. Both sides should enhance the mechanism building of China-Ukraine cooperation committee and give full play to the planning and coordinating role of the mechanism. He said that China hopes the two countries could well implement major cooperative projects and improve cooperation in science, technology and agriculture to expand cooperation scale and uplift cooperation level. Third, expand humanities exchanges. Hu urged both sides to take the opportunity of the 20th anniversary of diplomatic ties next year to well hold relevant celebrations, push forward friendly exchanges between cultural groups, academic institutions and youth organizations of the two countries and consolidate the social basis of China-Ukraine friendship. Fourth, enhance cooperation in international and regional affairs. Hu said the two countries share identical or similar positions on issues such as reform on the United Nations, climate change and nuclear non-proliferation. Both sides should enhance communication and coordination to safeguard common interests of both countries.

Echoing President Hu's proposals on pushing forward bilateral ties, Azarov said China has made remarkable development achievements since reform and opening up, making important contributions to world peace and development. The Ukrainian side highly appreciated these achievements and was glad to see in recent years Ukraine-China relations have made positive progress marked by frequent high-level exchanges and smooth development of pragmatic cooperation in all areas. Ukraine is ready to establish and develop strategic partnership with China, maintain high-level and party-to-party exchanges, enhance cooperation on economy, trade, science, technology, aerospace, aviation, agriculture and humanities and keep closer communication and coordination in major international and regional issues. Ukraine firmly adheres to the one-China policy and welcomes Chinese enterprises to invest in the country.

Ling Jihua, Wang Huning, Dai Bingguo and other officials attended the meeting.