From March 3 to 5, 2025, at the invitation of the Cyprus-China Friendship Association (CCFA), Jiang Jiang, Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), led a delegation to Cyprus. During his stay, Jiang Jiang met separately with Thessalia Salina Shambos, Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus; Marina Nicolaou, Christiana Erotokritou, and Marinos Mousiouttas, members of the Cypriot Parliament; Charalambos Prountzos, Mayor of Nicosia; Yiannis Armeftis, Mayor of Limassol; Dinos Florides, President of the CCFA. Liu Yantao, Chinese Ambassador to Cyprus, attended related meetings.

Jiang Jiang said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1971, China-Cyprus relations have maintained a high level of development, setting an example of countries large and small treating each other as equals and different civilizations learning from each other. In recent years, the China-Cyprus strategic partnership has achieved high-quality development, with frequent high-level exchanges, strong political mutual trust, and fruitful cooperation in fields such as economy and trade, culture and sister cities. China is vigorously promoting high-quality development and high-standard opening-up, which will provide broader opportunities for China-Cyprus cooperation. Jiang expressed the willingness of the CPAFFC to work with the Cypriot side, guided by the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, to carry forward traditional friendship, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen cultural exchanges, and pursue high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, to bring more benefits to the two countries and peoples.

Jiang Jiang appreciated the support of the central and local governments and people from all sectors of society in Cyprus for the cause of China-Cyprus people-to-people friendship, and fully affirmed the important role played by the CCFA. Besides, he expressed that the CPAFFC is ready to work together with people from all sectors in Cyprus to continuously enhance mutual understanding and friendship among the people and consolidate popular support for exchanges between the two countries. Fully recognizing the work done by the China-Cyprus Sister City Alliance in recent years, Jiang Jiang said that the exchanges between sister cities have made important contributions to the development of state-to-state relations. Support will be rendered to both sides in effectively utilizing platforms for subnational exchanges and cooperation, thus mobilizing more local resources to advance the China-Cyprus strategic partnership.

The Cypriot side said that Cyprus cherishes the profound traditional friendship between the two countries and admires China's tremendous development achievements. Cyprus is willing to further tap the potential of bilateral cooperation in the economic, trade, science and technology, education, culture, and local fields, so as to elevate bilateral relations to a new level. Additionally, they appreciated the CPAFFC's unique and crucial role in fostering mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples. The Cypriot side expressed their readiness to work closely with the CPAFFC to inject fresh impetus into people-to-people exchanges, subnational cooperation and sister-city exchanges between Cyprus and China. These efforts aim to deliver more benefits to people on both sides.