Chinese Vice President Xi meets with mayor of St. Petersburg

ST. PETERSBURG, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping met with Valentina Matviyenko, mayor of St. Petersburg on issues of Sino-Russian relations at the Smolny Palace here on Sunday.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (L, Front) meets with mayor of St. Petersburg  Valentina Matviyenko (R, Front) in St. Petersburg, Russia, March 21, 2010.  (Xinhua/Rao Aimin)

Xi, who is on a five-day official visit to Russia, said in the meeting that the China-Russia strategic partnership of cooperation has been consistently developing and reached an unprecedented high level marked by intense high-level exchanges and strengthened political trust.

The occasions for dialogues between the two countries have been developing at various levels, and the practical cooperations in areas of trade, investment, energy and technological have yielded remarkable results, he said.