MOSCOW, March 25 Russia and China will strive to join forces in high-tech areas, where both countries have a high competitiveness, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
«Of course, we will strive to ensure that we combine our efforts in the most promising high-tech industries, where each of us has a certain high, well-developed level of competitiveness in world markets,» Putin said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin on the channel » Russia 24″.
All this, he noted, was the subject of conversations with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Chinese President Xi Jinping was in Russia on March 20-22 on a state visit, which was his first trip abroad after being re-elected as head of state for a third term. On Monday, the President of the People's Republic of China had an informal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and on Tuesday Russian-Chinese talks were held with the participation of delegations. The delegation of the Chinese leader, among others, included Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wang Yi, head of the office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang.
During the visit, a joint statement was signed on a plan to develop key areas of Russian-Chinese economic cooperation until 2030.