Cambodia-China relations date back to not less than two thousand years; however, these relations precisely appeared at the meeting between Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, Head of State of the Kingdom of Cambodia, and Zhou Enlai, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of China in the Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung in 1955. In 1956 Samdech Norodom Sihanouk visited Beijing to sign a declaration of friendship between Cambodia and China. Starting from that declaration, Cambodia officially established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China on 19 July 1958.