Chinese Vice Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday met with visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Borisovich Khristenko.
Wen welcomed Khristenko, saying that China-Russia strategic cooperative partnership had become closer in recent years, especially after the two countries signed the Sino-Russian Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation last year. This set out principles and direction for further developing neighborlyfriendship and mutual cooperation between the two countries in thenew century.
Relevant government departments in both countries had worked hard to implement the treaty and cooperation in many fields had prospered, Wen said.
He said China considered trade one of the fundamentals of the Sino-Russian strategic cooperative partnership, adding that with joint efforts trade and economic cooperation would play a more active role in promoting bilateral relations.
Khristenko noted that great changes had taken place in China signaling the remarkable achievements it had made in economic reform and progress in opening-up.
Russia and China had the same desire to promote bilateral ties,trade and economic cooperation in particular, he said, expressing his belief that cooperation between the two countries in various fields had a good future.
Khristenko left here on Monday morning at the end of his China visit.