China top legislator to visit Russia, attend Eastern Economic Forum

Nationwide Folks’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Chairman Li Zhanshu speaks on the second plenary session of the NPC on the Nice Corridor of the Folks in Beijing, China March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins

SHANGHAI, Sept 4 (Reuters) – China’s high legislator Li Zhanshu will attend the seventh Japanese Financial Discussion board in Vladivostok this week, the official Xinhua information company reported on Sunday, changing into probably the most senior Chinese language official to go to Russia because the Ukraine conflict started.

Li, chairman of the Nationwide Folks’s Congress Standing Committee, can pay official visits to Russia, Mongolia, Nepal and South Korea from Wednesday to Sept 17, in keeping with Xinhua. He’ll attend the four-day discussion board, set to start on Monday, throughout his keep in Russia, it stated.

Li, at present ranked No.3 within the Chinese language Communist Occasion, is because of retire from his Occasion place at a Occasion congress subsequent month, however will hold his parliamentary place till March.

China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin introduced a “no restrict” strategic partnership in February, weeks earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine in what Putin calls “a particular navy operation.

Reporting by Beijing and Shanghai newsroom; Enhancing by William Mallard & Simon Cameron-Moore

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