Sino-Myanmar ties renewed

BEIJING - China and Myanmar are willing to increase their economic and trade cooperation, President Hu Jintao and Myanmar's top leader, Than Shwe, said during their meeting on Wednesday.

"China pays a great deal of attention to relations with Myanmar," Hu told Than Shwe, chairman of Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council.

"Consolidating and developing Sino-Myanmar cooperation and friendship is our unswerving policy. However the international situation might change, this policy will not alter," Hu added.