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Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with Cuban leader Raul Castro’s special envoy Salvador Valdes Mesa at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

BEIJING, June 27, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping (R), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with Cuban leader Raul Castro's special envoy Salvador Valdes Mesa, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), in Beijing, capital of China, June 27, 2016. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei)

Valdes is a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. He is in Beijing to brief the Chinese leadership on the results of the Cuban Communist Party’s seventh Congress. 

Xi congratulated Cuba on the congress and asked Valdes to convey his greetings to comrades Fidel Castro and Raul Castro. 

Valdes said the Cuban side cherishes the long-standing friendship between the two countries, and looks forward to closer exchanges on governance and practical cooperation.

BEIJING, June 27, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping (R), also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with Cuban leader Raul Castro's special envoy Salvador Valdes Mesa, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), in Beijing, capital of China, June 27, 2016. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)