On the evening of November 24, 2015, Premier Li Keqiang, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia, the host country of the last summit, and Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma of Latvia, the host country of the next summit, met the press together at the Taihu International Conference Center in Suzhou after attending the fourth Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries, briefing on the outcome of the summit.

Li Keqiang noted that leaders present at the summit agreed that the 16+1 cooperation mechanism has witnessed increasingly deepened exchanges and cooperation since its establishment. Over the past three years, all parties have been pushing forward it steadily. The consensus reached during the previous three summits was effectively implemented and scored fruitful results. China and the Central and Eastern European countries docking each other's development strategies will provide broader space for in-depth cooperation. A five-year plan was adopted during this summit, indicating that the 16+1 mechanism is not an expedient, but a constant move, and enjoys promising prospects.

Li Keqiang stressed that in order to push the 16+1 cooperation for sustained, healthy and long-term development, China proposes a "1+6" cooperation framework, which includes one goal and six priorities. Both sides will commit to the goal of building a new model of partnership featuring openness, inclusiveness and win-win outcomes; focus on implementation of the roadmap of the Medium-term Plan for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and the Suzhou Guidelines for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries; steadily advance connectivity construction and earnestly construct the Budapest-Belgrade railway and the China-Europe land-sea express line; set new examples for cooperation on production capacity and discuss on the cooperation initiative involving the ports of the Adriatic, Baltic and Black seas; keep innovating and looking for new ways for investment and financing cooperation and discuss on the establishment of a 16+1 finance company; promote the growth of both trade and investment by taking agriculture as a breakthrough; expand people-to-people and cultural and social exchanges. China suggests that the year 2016 be made the year of 16+1 people-to-people and cultural exchanges.

Aleksandar Vučić and Laimdota Straujuma expressed that the Central and Eastern European nations support the "1+6" cooperation framework for future cooperation put forward by Premier Li Keqiang, agree to the implementation of the Medium-term Plan for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries and the Suzhou Guidelines for Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries, stand ready to implement the consensus reached by leaders of both sides to deepen the 16+1 cooperation, and welcome Chinese enterprises to participate in the infrastructure construction of Central and Eastern Europe so as to jointly construct the "Belt and Road". The Central and Eastern European nations welcome more Chinese tourists to travel in Central and Eastern Europe to expand people-to-people and cultural exchanges and look forward to the fifth Summit of China and Central and Eastern European Countries to be held in Latvia next year.

On the afternoon, Li Keqiang attended the signing ceremony of the cooperation documents on the Budapest-Belgrade railway link co-constructed by China and Hungary as well as China and Serbia together with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia, and met with Vice Prime Minister Costin Borc of Romania and Deputy Prime Minister Ľubomír Vážny of Slovakia.