In July 2014, the China-Switzerland Free Trade Agreement came into effect. This was the first free trade agreement between China and the European countries, and also the first free trade agreement between China and the top 20 countries in the world economy. The China-Switzerland Free Trade Agreement signed in 2013 is one of the highest-level free trade agreements reached by China in recent years, and its market openness and zero-tariff ratio are relatively high. The Swiss side will immediately implement zero tariff on 99.7% of China's exports, and China will finally impose zero tariff on 84.2% of the Swiss side's exports.

In January 2015, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Switzerland and the two sides announced the cooperation to establish a Offshore Yuan Trading Center in Zurich. The People's Bank of China and the Swiss National Bank signed a memorandum of understanding to reach an agreement on the establishment of a renminbi clearing arrangement in Switzerland and agreed to expand the pilot area of RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) to Switzerland with an investment quota of RMB 50 billion.

In April 2016, the President of the Swiss Confederation, Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, made a state visit to China. The two sides have decided to place their relations under the banner of an 'innovative strategic partnership'. Switzerland has become China's first innovative strategic partner country, and is also China's first foreign relations country that is positioned and named after the "Five Major Development Concepts".

In January 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a four-day state visit to Switzerland. This is the first time that the Chinese President has paid a state visit to Switzerland since the beginning of the new century. It is also the first time that President Xi has visited the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG). The visit was fruitful and far-reaching. Sino-Swiss friendship and cooperation have reached a new level.

In May 2017, at the invitation of the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, President of the Swiss Confederation, Doris Leuthard visited China and attended the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BARF) held in Beijing. This visit was only four months after the last meeting between the two presidents. The high-level exchanges of visits between the two countries are so frequent and unprecedented in the history of Sino-Swiss relations.

President Ueli Maurer paid a visit to China from 22 to 30 April accompanied by a finance and business delegation. Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Mr Maurer for a state visit on 28 and 29 April. Following a Federal Council decision taken on 10 April, Switzerland and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation with third markets under the Belt and Road Initiative during the visit. In the days prior to that Mr Maurer held meetings with the Chinese authorities and representatives from the financial and business sectors and attend the second Belt and Road Forum.