On August 6th, Wang Yi, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs, had a phone conversation with Borrelli, the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy. Borrell expressed deep condolences on the recent rainstorm and flood disaster in China and stressed that the European side is firmly committed to developing good relations with China. The EU's "Global Gateway" plan is not antagonistic to the "the Belt and Road" initiative, but complementary, both aimed at promoting global development. Looking forward to visiting China as soon as possible and conducting strategic dialogue with China, jointly preparing for this year's EU China Leaders' Meeting, and promoting further development of EU China relations. Wang Yi stated that currently, high-level exchanges between China and Europe have maintained a good momentum, and both sides believe that cooperative partners are the most important feature of China Europe relations. China has always promoted China Europe relations with a positive attitude and attaches great importance to the scheduled China Europe Leaders' Meeting to be held within the year. We look forward to the meeting playing a strategic leading role in China Europe relations and bilateral cooperation. Both China and the EU need to engage in more institutional dialogues to make up for the missing exchange lessons between China and the EU in the past three years of the pandemic, and inject new strong momentum into the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and the EU. China welcomes the visit of High Representative Borrelli to China this autumn and the holding of strategic dialogue, in order to prepare politically for the leaders' meeting through extensive and in-depth exchanges. Both sides also exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern such as Ukraine and Niger. (New News Agency)