On October 30, Brazilian Workers’ Party candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won the presidential runoff and once again was elected president of Brazil—he previously served as head of state from 2003 to 2010.
In his congratulatory message to Lula on October 31, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he stands ready to work with the president-elect, from a strategic height and long-term perspective, to jointly plan and lift the China-Brazil comprehensive strategic partnership to a higher level to benefit both countries and their people.
China and Brazil officially established diplomatic ties in 1974 and their bilateral cooperation in the following decades has yielded fruitful results. The Sixth Meeting of the China-Brazil High-Level Coordination and Cooperation Committee in May was a success, drafting a
