On the evening of July 11, 2015, President Xi Jinping returned to Beijing after his attendance at the 7th BRICS Summit and the 15th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee Wang Huning, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee Li Zhanshu, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Governor of the People’s Bank of China Zhou Xiaochuan and other accompanying officials arrived by the same plane.

On the morning of July 11 local time, Xi Jinping left Ufa, Russia for Beijing. Upon leaving Ufa, senior officials from the government of the Russian Federation, Chief Executive of the Republic of Bashkortostan and other officials saw him off at the airport.