On July 6 local time, Philippine President Marcos met with Chinese State Councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi who was invited to visit the Philippines in Manila. China is the largest trading partner and important development partner of the Philippines, and the two sides have carried out fruitful cooperation in various fields. After the outbreak of the COVID-19, China took the lead in providing vaccines and protective materials to help the Philippines maintain the safety of people's lives. The Philippines is sincerely grateful for this. China strongly supports the Philippines in promoting "large-scale construction and special construction" and plays an important role in improving infrastructure in the Philippines. The Philippines hopes to continue to promote bilateral cooperation in a wide range of fields such as politics, economy, trade, education and culture, and constantly enrich the connotation of the strategic partnership. Marcos said that the Philippines pursues the concept of peaceful and independent diplomacy and always adheres to the one China policy. China is not only a neighbor of the Philippines, but also a partner and friend. The friendship between the two countries can only and must be further strengthened. The South China Sea issue is not the mainstream of Philippines China relations and should not restrict or hinder bilateral cooperation. The Philippines is willing to have frank exchanges with China to find a friendly solution. This is the right way for the two countries to get along, so that the cooperation between the two sides can achieve more results and bring more benefits to the two peoples. China Philippines relations are standing at a new starting point. China is willing to adhere to the general direction of friendly cooperation between the two countries with the Philippines, and work together to become a good neighbor who helps each other, a good relative who knows each other and is close to each other, and a good partner for win-win cooperation, so as to promote the improvement and upgrading of bilateral cooperation and create a new "golden age" for bilateral relations. China firmly supports the smooth governance of the new Philippine government, and is willing to cooperate with the Philippines in the four key areas of big agriculture, big infrastructure, big energy and big humanities in combination with the president's concept of governing the country, so as to help the Philippines accelerate its development and revitalization and create more well-being for the Philippine people. Wangyi stressed that China Philippines friendship has lasted for thousands of years. The president has repeatedly said that any differences should not and will not affect the historic and important relationship between the two countries, and China agrees with this. Cooperation between the Philippines and China goes far beyond maritime differences. Specific differences should not be allowed to define bilateral relations, and individual disputes should not interfere with bilateral cooperation. Both sides should strengthen dialogue and communication, properly handle sensitive issues, make maritime cooperation the main keynote for both sides to discuss and deal with maritime affairs, and make building a "three good relations" of good neighbors, good relatives and good partners a new consensus between the two peoples. On the same day, Wang Yi also met with Philippine vice president Sarah and national security adviser Carlos, held talks with the new foreign minister manaro and jointly attended the signing ceremony of the cooperation document. (Xinhua News Agency)