After a week-long meeting, a delegation from northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Sunday signed a summary of talks with its counterpart from the far east region of Russia on further cooperation in police affairs at the Sino-Russian border.

The Russian delegation consists of security authorities of Russia and of its four prefectures, including Khabarovsk and Amur in the frontier areas.

The Chinese delegation included the international cooperation department of the Ministry of Public Security and the public security bureaus of Heilingjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces in northeast China.

During the 7-day meeting, which began on June 13 and concluded on June 19, the two sides exchanged views on increasing the exchange of information on cross-border crimes and cooperation in case handling and protection of citizens in both countries.

In the wake of building a strategic partnership between China and Russia, bilateral trade, economic and scientific cooperation, have been warming up. Consequently, cross-border crimes appear in new forms. To crack down on the cult, arms and drug trafficking and other crimes in a more effective way, Heilongjiang Province has teamed up with the public security authorities in the far eastern areas of Russia in transnational investigation, criminal hunting and transfer of suspects.

Last year, they built four cooperative systems, namely regular high-profile meetings, a mechanisms on combating transnational crimes, information exchange and the establishment of a liaison team.

The current meeting was "successful and laid a solid foundation for promoting bilateral cooperation in a down-to-earth manner," said Sun Bangnan, deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Bureau.

Source: Xinhua