On October 8, 2004, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who was attending the 5th Asia-Europe Submit (ASEM), met with Estonia Premier Pärt and British Deputy Premier Prescott respectively.

When meeting with Pärt, Wen said that since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Estonia, relations between the two countries have been developing in an all-round manner, in terms of political, economic and cultural fields. Mutual political trust between the two sides has continuously deepened; cooperation in economy and trade has steadily expanded. The Chinese side was satisfied with the rapid development of the bilateral relations. Wen Jiabao indicated that great potential still lies in cooperation of economy and trade between China and Estonia. The Chinese side would like to take measures to expand import from Estonia and welcome more Estonia enterprises to China. Wen Jiabao presented his congratulations to Pärt on the entry of Estonia into the European Union; he hoped that Estonia would play a positive role in the development of China-EU relations.

Pärt made positive remarks on the development of China-Estonia relations. He said that Estonia attaches great importance to relations with China, and he hoped that the two sides could deepen and expand cooperation in various fields, such as economy, trade, culture, education, transportation, information technology and travel.

When meeting with Prescott, Wen Jiabao noted that China and the UK were both permanent members of the UN Security Council, the two countries shared same interests and responsibilities in maintaining world peace and promoting joint development. China would like to work jointly with Britain to implement the consensus that task forces had made, as well as to enhance pragmatic cooperation in investment, finance, resource, education and culture, science and technology, environment and sustainable development.

Prescott noted that Britain-China relations had witnessed rapid development in recent years, bilateral exchanges on various levels was more frequent than ever before. The British government would make enhanced efforts to bring a fruitful future to Britain-China all-round strategic partnership.