President Xi Jinping's upcoming trip to Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus is part of a series of moves by China to promote peace and common regional development.

Xi will attend Saturday's ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory of the Great Patriotic War (1941-45) in Moscow, where he will convey Chinese people's respect to the Russian people for their indelible efforts against fascism in World War II, and China's sincerity to work with the whole world to maintain peace and create a brighter future.

In their common fight seven decades ago, with the Soviet Union fighting against German fascism in the west and China fighting against Japanese imperialism in the east, the peoples of both countries mutually extended support and help to each other and forged deep friendship with their blood. This also laid a solid foundation for their later generations of friendship. Such a history should be commemorated and remembered by today's people.