CAIRO, Aug. 4 -- Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Arab League (AL) Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi held talks here on Sunday to further pragmatic cooperation between the two sides.

Chinese President Xi Jinping raised a comprehensive planning during the sixth ministerial conference of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) in June, charting the future course for development of bilateral relations as well as key cooperative areas, Wang said, calling for immediate actions of the two sides to push forward the meeting's agreements.

The top diplomat, who wrapped up his two-day visit on Sunday, also called China and the Arab countries to jointly hold the event of the Year of China-Arab Friendship in this September, as well as the fourth China-Arab Energy Cooperation Conference and the sixth China-Arab Business Conference to further promote China-Arab multilateral pragmatic cooperation in various fields such as energy, trade, investment and infrastructure constructions.

"The two sides should strengthen their efforts in planning, formulation and communication to steadily promote China-Arab pragmatic cooperation in the coming 10 years," the top diplomat said. "First of all, we should make efforts to keep fast growths of both China-Arab trade volume and China's investment in the Arab world," he said, adding that the goals of 600 billion U.S. dollars bilateral trade volume and 60 billion dollars non-financial investment stock should be reached as early as possible in the next decade.

Meanwhile, the two sides could seek breakthrough in high-tech industries such as nuclear energy, new energy and aerospace, in order to promote the implementation of projects including China- Arab technology transfer center and Arab training center for peaceful use of nuclear energy.

In addition, he said, cultural departments from China and the Arab countries should jointly work on the people-to-people exchanges of 10,000 Chinese and Arab artists, and boost and support cooperation and communication among 200 cultural institutions from the two sides.

"As for issues in the Middle East region, China will adhere to the purposes of the UN Charters and the basic principles of international relations," Wang said, reaffirming China's support and respect for the peoples' independent choices of the paths of development in the region.

On his side, Arabi said the Arab countries paid great attentions to the development of China-Arab ties and the improvement of the CASCF. "The Arab world is willing to make joint efforts with China to push forward the implementation of agreements reached during the forum," he added.

The AL leader described China as a truly reliable friend to the Arab world, expressing his praises for China's positive efforts in solving the Palestine-Israel conflict with peace talks.

He also said that the Arab side would like to keep close contacts with China to politically resolve the Palestine-Israel conflict as well as the Syrian and Libyan issues.