China and Russia can leverage their complementary strengths in science and technology to help each other fulfill their strategic needs, improve the well-being of their peoples and jointly tackle regional and global challenges with more innovative solutions, experts said. To deepen such cooperation, the experts said that nongovernmental organizations from China and Russia should play a more prominent role by promoting academic exchanges, bolstering people-to-people relations and launching new joint platforms to support research projects and the industrialization of scientific findings.
Vitaly Mankevich, president of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, said that Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Moscow is a positive signal for Russian companies. He also said that Xi's choice of Russia as his first overseas destination after being reelected president means that the bilateral partnership has withstood the test of external pressure.
President Xi Jinping is scheduled to kick off a three-day visit to Russia on Monday that is expected to guide the high-level China-Russia relationship further forward and inject more stability into the complicated international situation. It is the second time that Xi has chosen Russia as the destination of his first overseas trip after being elected Chinese president, following his visit to the country in 2013.
BEIJING, March 20 (Xinhua) -- A signed article by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled "Forging Ahead to Open a New Chapter of China-Russia Friendship, Cooperation and Common Development" was published Monday on Russia's newspaper Russian Gazette and the website of RIA Novosti news agency ahead of his state visit to Russia. Following is an English version of the full text of the article: Forging Ahead to Open a New Chapter of China-Russia Friendship, Cooperation and Common Development Xi Jinping President of the People's Republic of China At the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, I will soon pay a state visit to the Russian Federation.
