On August 21, 2026, the seminar themed "China and the Visegrad Group (V4) Countries: The Way Forward" was held in Slovakia, Chinese Ambassador to Slovakia H.E. Cai Ge attended and delivered a speech. The event was also attended by Mr. Daniel Karas, Vice Chair of the Committee on Finance and Budget of the Slovak Parliament, and Mr. Artur Bekmatov, Advisor to the Slovak Prime Minister, along with over 50 participants from governments, universities, think tanks, and business circles from China and the V4 countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia).

H.E. Ambassador Cai stated that China will continue to expand institutional opening-up, promote high-quality development, and continuously unleash dividends from its market, innovation, and business environment during her 15th Five-Year Plan period, bringing vast cooperation opportunities for V4 countries. China is willing to actively explore China+V4 cooperation model, tapping cooperation pattern in key areas as development strategy alignment, green and low-carbon development, artificial intelligence, digital economy,cross-border trade, small and medium sized enterprises cooperation and people-to-people exchanges.

The seminar was co-hosted by the Center for China-Europe Relations at Fudan University and the Slovak think tank "Analysis, Strategies, Alternatives". Participating scholars engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including V4 development, and relations and practical cooperation between V4 countries and China.