A top Chinese official on Thursday called for further
party-to-party cooperation between China and Russia in an aim to
boost the bilateral relations.
Xi Jinping, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political
Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
(CPC), met with Gennady Zyuganov, president of the Communist Party
of Russian (CPR) Federation at the Hall of the People in
Beijing.
The two officials agreed on further cementing the exchange and
cooperation between the two parties.
Xi hailed the recent development of the China-Russia strategic
partnership, vowing that China is committed to make joint efforts
with the Russian side to boost the partnership.
He spoke positively of the cooperation between the two communist
parties, saying that the two parties have played very positive
roles to help step up the ties between the two countries.
"The CPC will continue to work closely with the leading Russian
political parties including the CPR", Xi added.
Agreeing with Xi's views on the bilateral relations, Zyuganov
highlighted the achievement made by China in the latest three
decades since the country adopted the reform and opening-up
policies.
The CPR is satisfied with the implementation process of the
agreements of cooperation between the two parties and confident in
the future party relations with the CPC, Zyuganov told Xi,
promising that the CPR would make its utmost efforts to push
forward the bilateral exchange and cooperation with the mutual
benefit in the various fields to a higher level.
(Xinhua News Agency January 25, 2008)