Emmanuel Macron to Visit China from December 3–5, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron will make an official visit to China from December 3 to 5, 2025, the Élysée Palace announced (CNN Greece / Élysée). During the trip he will go first to Beijing and then to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, where he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
According to the Élysée, this visit comes two and a half years after Macron’s previous trip in April 2023 and reflects his intention to maintain “a continuous and demanding dialogue with China.” (Xi Jinping visited France in May 2024.) The French presidency said Macron will bring “an agenda of cooperation and balance on economic and trade issues,” an ambition that will be central to France’s G7 presidency in 2026.
The Élysée added that the visit will address major challenges in strategic cooperation between France and China, as well as important international issues and areas of collaboration to tackle global challenges.
Chengdu hosts a conservation centre that this week received back the only pair of giant pandas that had been living in France — Huan Huan and her partner Yuan Zi — who were on loan to France’s Beauval Zoo in Loir‑et‑Cher. The pandas, loaned by China in 2012, returned to their homeland after the female, Huan Huan, developed kidney failure. The Chinese embassy in France has promised Paris that “new giant pandas” will arrive in the country in the future (CNN Greece).







