BEIJING, Sept. 21 -- Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, met with visiting Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro.

Fan said China and Indonesia share a long-standing and vigorous ties. Bilateral relations are currently in an important era of rapid and all-round development, and the two sides should continue to deepen friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation, realize common development and jointly maintain regional peace and stability.

Fan spoke highly of the contribution that Purnomo has made to the growth of relations between the militaries of the two countries.

He expressed the wish that the two militaries will continuously enhance mutual trust, expand friendly exchanges, deepen practical cooperation and conduct close coordination on multilateral issues so as to add fresh vigor to the sustained, stable growth of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

Purnomo said that in recent years, Indonesia and China have seen rapid growth of exchanges and cooperation in all areas. The two countries enjoy a solid foundation of defense relations. The Indonesian side will continue to work on strengthening high-level contact and practical cooperation between the two militaries so as to advance bilateral and military-to-military relations in a comprehensive and extensive way.

This was the second time that senior military officials of the two countries met so far this year. Fan and Purnomo met in Jakarta in July as Fan paid a three-day official visit to Indonesia.