MOSCOW, August 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will hold a historic meeting in September that will give a powerful boost to relations between the two countries, Chinese Ambassador to Moscow Zhang Hanhui told TASS in an interview.
"In September, during the golden fall season, a solemn meeting will be held in Beijing dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War," he said. "The leaders of China and Russia will once again hold an important meeting of historic significance, which will determine the direction of the further development of bilateral relations and give new impetus to deepening cooperation in all areas," the diplomat noted.
The ambassador emphasized that China and Russia are good neighbors connected by "shared rivers and mountains" and are "time-tested true friends who always regard each other as priority partners for cooperation." "China-Russia relations are based on the fundamental interests and common needs of the two countries. They have a clear historical logic and powerful internal driving forces," he added. "They are among the most stable, mature and strategically valuable relations between major powers in the modern world," Zhang Hanhui said.
