May 20-21, 2014

Shanghai

Putin's state visit to China

In May 2014, President Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to China, also his first China trip since President Xi Jinping took office in 2013. Xi held talks with him in Shanghai.

Both leaders agreed that further facilitating the China-Russia all-round strategic partnership of coordination is an "inevitable choice" for the development of a multi-polar world, and called for promoting bilateral cooperation on major projects in the fields of trade, economy, investment, energy, high technology, aviation, aerospace, infrastructure construction and people's livelihood.

The two sides signed a series of cooperative documents in various areas, including a long-awaited, significant gas deal.