Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) meets with Meng Jianzhu, special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, secretary of Central Politics and Law Commission of the Communist Party of China and member of CPC Politburo Standing Committee, at the new Presidential Palace in Ankara, capital of Turkey, on Nov. 18, 2014. (Xinhua/Zheng Jinfa)

Meng Jianzhu, special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, recently reached an agreement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on international counter-terrorism, marking the start of a new era of cross-regional cooperation for China in the battle against terrorism.

The significance of China's bilateral cooperation with Turkey can be analyzed from four perspectives.

First of all, a platform of counter-terrorist cooperation has started to form in the 'one belt and one road' region. For a very long time, China's counter-terrorist activities were carried out through the platform of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Though these activities were generally effective, Turkey, a country that has been affected by Pan-Turkism, was not included. Now there will be no blind spot in the governance of Pan-Turkism terrorism with the cooperation being built between China and Turkey.