On November 8, 2023, Vice President Han Zheng met with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore.

Han Zheng said, President Xi Jinping and Mr. Prime Minister upgraded the China-Singapore relationship to an all-round high-quality future-oriented partnership in March this year, which is of milestone significance in the process of bilateral relations. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore is advancing its modernization process with Oriental values and an international perspective, and blazes a development path suited to its national conditions. China is ready to work with Singapore to advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, promote the upgrade of bilateral cooperation projects, enhance personnel exchanges and people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries, fully capitalize on bilateral cooperation mechanisms, put the new positioning of bilateral relations into practice, and make new contributions to regional prosperity and stability.

Lee Hsien Loong said, Singapore and China enjoy profound traditional friendship. Singapore is ready to work with China to deepen the synergy between development strategies, hold a new round of meetings of bilateral cooperation mechanisms, and lift the all-round high-quality future-oriented partnership between Singapore and China to a new level.

Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Heng Swee Keat was present at the meeting.