Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, held talks with Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and Cuban president, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.

The two sides should forge ahead hand in hand on the path of building socialism with our own characteristics, to continue to deepen China-Cuba ties in the new era, Xi said.