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Chinese Vice-President meets with Russian PM

Mutual political trust, economic and trade ties and international cooperation have become the mainstay of the Sino-Russian relationship, Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong said Wednesday.


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Mutual political trust, economic and trade ties and international cooperation have become the mainstay of the Sino-Russian relationship, Chinese Vice-President Zeng Qinghong said Wednesday.

Zeng told visiting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov thatthe development of Sino-Russian relations over the past decade hadbeen "pleasing".

Viewing each other as friendly countries, developing a constructive partnership, setting the strategic partnership of cooperation to signing the Sino-Russian Good-Neighborly Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, the Sino-Russian relationship had undergone "four steps", he said.

The new Communist Party of China central leadership was willingto fully strengthen strategic cooperation and good-neighborly relations, Zeng noted.

The vice-president pointed out that mutual political trust was key to the strategic partnership of cooperation.

The two sides should continue to cement political trust in the current complicated and changing international situation, he said.

Zeng said the Chinese and Russian economies were very complementary and the Chinese side hoped Russia's economy would grow fast to create more favorable conditions for economic and trade cooperation.

China also hoped the two sides would strengthen non-governmental exchanges, including contacts between people along the border, in order to consolidate the social basis for the relationship, he said.

Kasyanov said his visit would push forward Sino-Russian cooperation and Russia would take active measures to implement thenew cooperative goals set by the two governments.

The development of China was conducive to the deepening and expanding of cooperation and complied with the interests of Russia, Kasyanov said.


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