On September 4, 2009, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi held talks with visiting Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez in Beijing. Both sides exchanged views on bilateral ties, as well as international and regional issues of common concern.

Yang said recent years have witnessed substantial development of the friendly cooperative relations between the two countries. Both sides have increased their high-level contacts, with deepening pragmatic cooperation and close exchanges and cooperation in the fields of culture, education, health and tourism. It is in the fundamental interest of the two countries and their peoples to further enhance bilateral mutually beneficial and friendly cooperation. China attaches great importance to developing ties with Colombia and is ready to work with it to push for all-round, in-depth development of bilateral friendly cooperative relations.

Bermudez said the Colombian people hold friendly feelings towards the Chinese people. The Colombian government attaches great importance to developing ties with China and hopes to further deepen bilateral exchanges and cooperation on politics, economy, trade and culture. The Colombian side invited Chinese businesses to invest in Colombia and welcomed more Chinese tourists to the country. Colombia is ready to work with China to give full play to the role of the existing cooperation mechanism between the two countries and continuously push for all-round development of bilateral ties.