Page 1 - ON BUILDING A HUMAN COMMUNITY WITH A SHARED FUTURE

FOLLOWING THE TRENDS OF OUR TIME

AND PROMOTING WORLD PEACE AND
DEvELOPMENT

March 23, 2013

Mr. Anatoly Vasilyevich Torkunov, Rector of Moscow State Institute of
International Relations,
Your Excellency Olga Yurievna Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the
Russian Federation,
Faculty Members and Students,

I am delighted to have the chance to come to the beautiful Moscow
State Institute of International Relations today and meet so many of
your faculty members and students.
The Moscow State Institute of International Relations is a
prestigious school of world renown and boasts an outstanding faculty
and distinguished alumni. I wish to applaud the remarkable achievements
you have made in different fields.
Russia is a friendly neighbor of China’s. This visit to Russia is the
first leg of my first overseas trip since becoming Chinese president. It
is also my second visit in three years to your beautiful and bounteous
country. Yesterday, President Putin and I held fruitful talks and together
attended the launch of Russia’s China Tourism Year.
The month of March marks the return of spring, a season of great
renewal, and a time for sowing. As a popular Chinese saying goes, he
who hopes for a good year starts planning and working in spring. China
and Russia are seizing this delightful early spring moment, to do the tilling
and hoeing work for our bilateral relations and for world peace and
development. We can be confident our efforts will produce a new and
plentiful harvest to the benefit of our two peoples and the people of

Speech at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

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