Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica arrived here on Monday morning, kicking off an one-week state visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao.
During Arias's stay in Beijing, Hu will hold talks with him. Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao will meet him respectively.
Besides the capital Beijing, Arias will also visit northwestern city of Xi'an and China's commercial hub Shanghai.
This is the first time for Arias to visit China since he took office in 2006. He had visited China in 1968 and 1990 respectively.
China and Costa Rica posted 1.56 billion U.S. dollars of bilateral trade in the first seven months of this year, up 61.3 percent year-on-year. The Chinese side predicted that trade for the whole of 2007 will reach 3 billion U.S. dollars, up from 2.16 billion U.S. dollars reported last year. Enditem
Source: Xiinhua
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