MINSK, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that cooperation with China at the non-national level should be expanded in order to enhance the overall bilateral relationship.

He said that "it is possible to arrange many things at the level of the presidents, the governments and ministries, but it is only possible to realize all these in full with the participation of provinces and regions."

Lukashenko cited the interactions between the regions of Russia and Belarus. "I often say that if there was no interregional cooperation with Russia, we would never have such relations with that state."

The top Belarusian leader also noted that several regions of China are comparable in their economic potential to strong central European countries.