From 15 to 19 May 1991, Jiang Zemin, then General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, paid an official visit to the Soviet Union, issued the China-Soviet Joint Communiqué and the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the two countries signed an agreement on the eastern section of the China-Soviet Union border.
[2][3] On December 27 of the same year, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, China announced its official recognition of the government of the Russian Federation and confirmed the establishment of state relations with it.
[7] The high-level meeting between the two leaders is of great significance for the promotion of good-neighborly, friendly and mutually beneficial relations of cooperation between China and Russia.
The two countries also signed the Joint Declaration of the People's Republic of China and Ukraine at the Marian Palace in Kyiv.
[20][21] On September 9, 1994, the President of France Francois Mitterrand went to Paris Orly Airport to greet the visiting Chinese leader Jiang Zemin.