Xi Jinping pointed out that Lithuania is an im portant country in the Baltic region and a partner of China in Central and Eastern Europe. China attaches great im portance to the development of neutral relations. The two sides should respect each other, deepen mutual trust, earnestly respect and take care of each other's core interests and major concerns, and always treat and handle bilateral relations from a strategic and long-term perspective.

Xi Jinping emphasized that Lithuania has obvious regio nal advantages and can play an im portant role in Asia-Europe interconnection. China is willing to strengthen its development strategy with Lithuania and promote the "One Belt, One Road" cooperation, especially to promote the co nstruction of the China-European class and the "Three Seaports" and expand two-way investment in e-commerce, financial technology, new energy, laserand agriculture. Increase cooperation in other fields. China hopes that Lithuania will use the platform of China Internatio nal im port Expo to announce its products. The two sides should expand cultural exchanges, promote non-governmental exchanges, strengthen local cooperation, jointly safeguard multilateralism, build an open world economy, and build a community of human destiny. China is willing to work with Lithuania to deepen cooperation between China and Central and Eastern Europe.

Grybauskaitė said that Lithuania admires China's leap-forward development and highly appreciates that China holds an internatio nal im port fair. In the current situation, this is a very timely and strategic move. The im portant speech delivered by President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony issued a clear signal that China co ntinues to expand its openness and support global free trade and an open world economy. Lithuania believes that the door to China's opening will not be closed, which is a major opportunity for all countries in the world. China plays an increasingly im portant role in internatio nal affairs. Lithuania is willing to strengthen all-round cooperation with China and actively promote the speeding up of the EU-China investment agreement negotiations and China-Central and Eastern Europe pragmatic cooperation to jointly promote multilateralism and free trade.