Beijing, December 4th—Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC), met here today with Emilio Lozada García, Head of the International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), who was in China for the Seventh Theory Seminar Between the CPC and the PCC. 

Liu said, under the strategic guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping and First Secretary Miguel Diaz-Canel, the special friendly relations between China and Cuba have maintained high-level operation with continuously enriched significance of the times. The two Parties and countries have always supported and helped each other. Regardless of the changes in the international situation, China's commitment to the long-term friendship with Cuba will not change, its determination to support Cuba's socialist path will not change, its direction in promoting pragmatic cooperation with Cuba will not change, and its will to defend international fairness and justice and oppose hegemony and power politics together with Cuba will not change. The CPC is willing to work with the PCC to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two Parties, strengthen strategic communication, enhance unity and coordination, deepen experience exchanges and mutual learning in party building and state governance, promote exchanges and cooperation in various fields, jointly implement the four global initiatives proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, promote the development of respective socialist causes, and accelerate the building of a China-Cuba community with a shared future. Liu also briefed on the relevant situation of the fourth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. 

Emilio Lozada García said, Cuba thanks China for the long-term and valuable support, and appreciates China's consistent opposition to the US blockade and sanctions against Cuba. Cuba firmly supports the one-China principle, opposes interference by external forces in China's internal affairs, and supports the implementation of the four global initiatives. The relationship between the two Parties is the cornerstone of Cuba-China relationship. The PCC is willing to strengthen exchanges with the CPC at all levels and in all fields, advance the exchanges between the two Parties in a more systematic and institutionalized manner, and strengthen coordination on international affairs, so as to make due contributions to the development of respective countries and building a Cuba-China community with a shared future. 

The two sides also exchanged views on international and regional issues of common interest.