China believes that President Yeltsin's resignation is an internal affair of Russia. As a friendly neighbor of Russia, We sincerely hope that Russia will maintain stability and development.


During Yeltsin's tenure as Russian president, he made unremitting efforts to establish and promote Sino-Russian strategic and cooperative partnership, laying a good foundation for the further growth of bilateral relations in the years ahead. China highly appreciates this. We believe that through joint efforts, Sino-Russian relations will achieve even greater success in the new century.