ST. PETERSBURG – At the invitation of Viacheslav Volodin, chairman of the Russian parliament’s lower house, the State Duma, and Chairwoman of Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko, China’s top legislator Zhao Leji paid an official goodwill visit to Russia from July 9 to 13.During the visit, Zhao, chairman of China’s National People’s Congress NPC Standing Committee, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, and held talks with Matviyenko and Volodin respectively in Moscow. He also attended the 9th meeting of the China-Russia committee for parliamentary cooperation in Moscow on Wednesday.
Noting that this year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Russia, Zhao said under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for the new era has developed at a high level and in high quality, bringing tangible benefits to the two peoples.
Recalling that a few days ago, Xi and Putin met again in Astana and reached a series of strategic consensus, Zhao said that the NPC of China is willing to work with the Russian Federal Assembly to implement the important consensus of the two heads of state at the legislative level and contribute to consolidating political mutual trust, deepening practical cooperation and enhancing friendship between the two peoples.
Putin asked Zhao to convey his cordial greetings to Xi. He said he and Xi recently had a successful meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana, during which they exchanged in-depth views on important issues of bilateral cooperation and reached important consensus.
The legislative bodies of Russia and China have always maintained a high level of cooperation, which helps to advance the priority issues of bilateral cooperation at the legislative level and create a favorable economic, cultural and legal environment for the achievement of various goals, Putin said.He pointed out that strengthening the work of the Russia-China committee for parliamentary cooperation is not only conducive to exchange of experience, mutual learning and understanding, and promotion of cooperation at the legislative and sub-national levels and in other fields between the two countries, but is also conducive to the enhancement of friendship between the two peoples. (Xinhua)…[+]