Xi, Widodo vow to take ties to new level

Sino-Indonesian cooperation has brought regional, global benefits

President Xi Jinping and Indonesian President Joko Widodo pledged on Wednesday to foster a new pattern of high-level cooperation, as both leaders reached key consensuses on the building of a bilateral community with a shared future during a meeting on Wednesday.

The meeting between Xi and Widodo on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali was their second sit-down within four months. The Indonesian leader made his fifth trip to China in July, becoming the first foreign head of state to visit Beijing since the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Before the meeting, the two leaders witnessed via video link the trial run of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, a landmark project of the Belt and Road Initiative that is expected to start operations in June and create 30,000 jobs for local people.

Beijing stands ready to continue furthering the alignment of the BRI with Indonesia's Global Maritime Fulcrum strategy and enabling the completion and operations at an early date of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, the first high-speed railway in Southeast Asia, Xi said.

Both sides should continue to move forward with the development of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Corridor and the "Two Countries, Twin Parks "project to bring bilateral cooperation to a new level, Xi said.

The cooperation between the two nations has yielded tangible achievements that not only have benefited the two peoples but also have had a positive influence at the regional and global levels.

Xi vowed continued support to Indonesia in developing a regional production center for vaccines as well as related joint research and development.