Latif Gandilov, the ambassador of Azerbaijan to China, officials from Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, together with Yuan Xikun, the curator of Jintai Art Museum as well as the author of the monument, unveiled the monument.

[1] The monument consists of a granite bust of the poet portraying him with a turban on the head.

The name of the poet, the dates of his birth and death and also “The great Azerbaijani poet, scientist and thinker” (Chinese: 阿塞拜疆伟大的诗人，学者和思想家) phrase are written on a pedestal in Chinese and Azerbaijani languages.

There is also a sentence by the poet in Azerbaijani and Chinese languages: Qüvvət elmdədir, başqa cür heç kəsHeç kəsə üstünlük eyləyə bilməz.

Faking Nizami's nationality has been condemned by chairman of Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization Mohammad Javad Adabi who stated that "falsification of the identity of great Iranian poet Nizami Ganjavi is evidence of the poorness of Azerbaijan’s culture".