China issued a statement on January 27, 2016, which said "Chinese officials are urging the government of Afghanistan to restart peace talks with the Taliban after the last round of discussions collapsed." Meanwhile on January 27, 2016, evening Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Salahuddin Rabbani, the Afghan Foreign Minister in Beijing. Afterward, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced: "Wang Yi said that as a peaceful mediator of the Afghan issue, China supports the 'Afghan-led and Afghan-owned' reconciliation process. China appreciates the move by the Afghan government to restart the negotiations with the Taliban." The announcement said this was "the right approach to achieve long-term stability in Afghanistan." According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Salahuddin Rabbani told Wang Yi on January 27 that "Afghanistan is willing to continue to expand its mutual interests with China and actively participate in the construction of 'One Belt, One Road'." The Foreign Ministry also listed points on which China and Afghanistan had reached consensus, including an acknowledgment of Afghanistan's desire to be a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Earlier on the day of Salahuddin Rabbani's arrival in Beijing on January 26, 2016, Peking University hosted a news conference to discuss a 2015 survey of Afghans conducted by the Asia Foundation, a nongovernmental organization based in San Francisco. The results showed that Afghans' optimism and confidence in their government and their country's future had plummeted to the lowest points in a decade. Representatives of Chinese commercial interests in Afghanistan were at the news conference and raised questions about the country's stability.