On November 22, 2023, Vice Foreign Minister Deng Li held a China-Germany political consultation at vice-foreign ministerial level with State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany Thomas Bagger in Beijing.

Deng Li said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations more than 50 years ago, China-Germany relations have long maintained sound and steady development, and China always views Germany as an important partner that enjoys harmony without uniformity and shares win-win cooperation. Deng Li expressed the hope that both sides will make joint efforts to implement the common understandings reached by President Xi Jinping and Chancellor Olaf Scholz, promote China-Germany exchanges at all levels, deepen bilateral practical cooperation, and bring greater benefits to the two countries and two peoples. In the face of the complex and ever-changing international situation, China and Germany should join hands to play an active role and inject more stability and certainty into a world fraught with changes and turbulence.

Thomas Bagger said that the German side attaches great importance to the development of Germany-China relations and adheres to an independent policy toward China. China is Germany's largest trading partner and an important cooperative partner, and Germany is ready to work with China to further tap the potential of Germany-China cooperation, strengthen communication and exchanges, and enhance mutual understanding. Germany is ready to take measures with China to facilitate personnel exchanges between the two countries.

The two sides also had an exchange of views on the Ukraine crisis, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and other international and regional hotspot issues of mutual interest and concern.