LI QIANG, PREMIER OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Honourable Prime Minister Albanese, it is a great pleasure to meet with you in Beijing. Welcome to China. Please allow me to once again congratulate you on your successful reelection as Prime Minister. In the past three years, thanks to your personal efforts and the joint efforts of both sides, China-Australia relations have moved beyond a low point and returned to the right track of stability and development. Our pragmatic cooperation is brimming with renewed vitality and bringing real benefits to our two peoples. Mr Prime Minister, you have come to China at the start of your second term, I'm sure this will provide new momentum for our two country's cooperation and relations. Since we last met in October last year, a lot has happened in the world. The world economy sees growing instability and uncertainty. The development of all countries is faced with new challenges. Given such circumstances, China and Australia, as important trade partners, should strengthen dialogue and cooperation. The significance of us doing so is becoming more notable. This morning, President Xi Jinping met with you and you reached important understandings on deepening China-Australia relations. China would like to continue to work with Australia for more outcomes in cooperation across the board to deliver more benefits to our two peoples. I would like to exchange views with you on issues of common interests in an in-depth and candid manner. Thank you.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: Well, thank you very much, Premier Li, for warmly welcoming me back to your country. And the friendship which we have developed I think was shown by the fact that we caught up, some of our officials, waiting for us, to engage informally as well - and I very much appreciate that. Your visit to Australia last year was warmly welcomed and this is the third now Annual Leaders' Dialogue that we have had together and I look forward to welcoming you to Australia next year as well. During that visit, you came not just to our national capital of Canberra, but to Adelaide and to Perth as well, which was very warmly received. And I'm pleased that I am reciprocating by being able to visit, not just Shanghai and Beijing, but Chengdu tomorrow, which is important, to go to Western China as well. Since our last Annual Leaders' Meeting, we have continued to make very good progress together, stabilising our bilateral relations and developing our relationship. Trade is flowing freely. Our officials are engaging regularly on shared priorities, including on climate change and steel decarbonisation, where I hosted a very good meeting yesterday, and maintaining dialogue on areas where we disagree, but we won't allow those to define our relationship. Preparations are underway for ministers from both countries to hold our eighth Australia-China Foreign and Strategic Dialogue, and our fifth Strategic Economic Dialogue, as well as many more engagements of all levels of our governments. Mr Premier, today I look forward to exploring new opportunities for cooperation, including in areas of climate change, trade, tourism, and culture. Our people-to-people links are so important, as you will have seen when you were so warmly welcomed in Australia by the many -- some 1.4 million Australians trace their ancestry and their heritage proudly back to China. And that is a benefit to both of our countries because they provide a very real personal link between us. We'll also have opportunity to have frank and open dialogue, and that enables us to navigate issues that need to be discussed wisely. Australia remains committed to a stable and constructive relationship between our two nations. We value this relationship and my presence here so early in my second term, our Parliament will assume, it's meeting for the first time next Tuesday, one week away. and so I'm here before Parliament has been scheduled. I think that can be taken as a sign of the importance of the relationship. So, I thank you very much to you as host for the arrangements for what has been already a splendid visit to China, and I look forward to another constructive dialogue with you.