China meets Uruguay president and signs cooperation documents

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Yamandu Orsi, president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, during Orsi's visit to Beijing; the meeting coincided with Orsi being the sixth foreign leader and the first head of state from Latin America and the Caribbean to visit China that year, and the engagement was presented as contributing to a deeper China-LAC community and to world peace, stability and improved global governance.

The visit included a series of agreements and a joint statement, and the announcement highlighted China's role as a growing source of foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, noting accumulated investment exceeding $600 billion and the construction of a trans-Pacific market said to cover more than 2 billion people.

Officials recorded concrete cooperation across infrastructure and technology: examples cited included Uruguay power transmission projects, Brazil solar power plants, Chile cloud data centers and Peru smart transportation systems, and the leaders witnessed documents covering investment, trade and other fields; the text also referenced the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for the 15th Five-Year Plan as offering further opportunities.

The two heads of state witnessed the signing of more than 10 cooperation documents and issued a joint statement on deepening the China-Uruguay comprehensive strategic partnership, and the announcement described an intent to align development strategies and deepen practical cooperation across multiple fields.

“China will always stand by LAC countries as a good friend and a good partner, march forward together with them on the paths toward modernization, and work together with them to write a new chapter in building a China-LAC community with a shared future,” said Global Times.

Uruguay assumed the chairmanship of the Group of 77 and China for 2026 and would serve as the rotating president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States and the Southern Common Market in 2026.