Min Aung Hlaing, president of Myanmar, will pay a five-day state visit to China starting on Monday, a trip expected to further deepen traditional friendship and practical cooperation between the two neighbors.

It will be Min Aung Hlaing's first China trip since he was sworn in as Myanmar's president in April.

President Xi Jinping will hold talks with Min Aung Hlaing. Premier Li Qiang and Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, will meet with him separately, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Friday.

Speaking at a regular news conference, Lin said that China and Myanmar are traditional friendly neighbors and that they are a community with a shared future. He said that over the past 76 years, since the establishment of diplomatic ties, both sides have upheld the spirit of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, which they jointly advocate, have stood together through thick and thin, looked out for each other, and forged solidarity and cooperation, leading to substantial progress in bilateral relations.

Lin said through President Min Aung Hlaing's visit, China looks forward to working with Myanmar to carry forward the traditional "pauk-phaw" (fraternal) friendship, deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership, secure more tangible results in building the China-Myanmar community with a shared future, and deliver further benefits to the two peoples.

The visit follows a series of recent high-level exchanges between the two countries, including a visit by Myanmar's Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe to Beijing earlier this month and a visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to Myanmar in April.

According to the Foreign Ministry, China has been Myanmar's largest trading partner for years, with bilateral trade reaching $19.4 billion in 2025, up 19.1 percent year-on-year.

While attending the opening ceremony of the "2026 Chinese Film Week" in Nay Pyi Taw, the capital of Myanmar, earlier this week, Min Aung Hlaing thanked China for providing emergency humanitarian assistance after a major earthquake, as well as for its ongoing support in Myanmar's social development fields, such as education, health, social affairs and rural development, according to his presidential office.

Zhou Fangyin, a professor at the School of International Relations at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, said that China-Myanmar relations have developed on the basis of mutual respect and mutual benefit, with strong political trust creating favorable conditions for practical cooperation.