Marcos's visit to China set three records-he was the first foreign head of state received by China in 2023. This visit is Marcos's first visit to China and his first official visit to a country outside ASEAN.

The analysis believes that this visit breaks the practice of the Philippine President's first visit to Southeast Asian countries in the New Year and shows that China and the Philippines attach great importance to bilateral relations.

China's ambassador to the Philippines, Huang Xilian, said in an interview with China media at the end of last year that since Marcos won the Philippine general election last May, high-level exchanges between China and the Philippines have been close, and the two sides have played the diplomatic trilogy of heads of state by exchanging congratulatory messages, telephone calls and sending envoys to each other, which has led the Sino-Philippine relations in the new era.

During the meeting, Marcos said that the Philippines and China have a history of friendly exchanges for thousands of years. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the comprehensive cooperation between the two sides has developed steadily. China's support and help have made important contributions to the national development of the Philippines, and mutual trust between the two countries has been increasing.

Brief introduction of the Republic of the Philippines

The Republic of the Philippines is located in the southeast of Asia. Bashi channel is far away from Taiwan Province Province in China in the north, facing Indonesia and Malaysia across the Sulawesi Sea and Barabak Strait in the south and southwest, facing the South China Sea in the west and the Pacific Ocean in the east.