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Beijing

Xi to promote agriculture

President Xi Jinping vowed on Monday to promote agriculture as a new growth area in cooperation between China and Macedonia and to expand bilateral cooperation in sectors including education, culture, arts and traditional Chinese medicine. Xi made the remarks when he met his Macedonian counterpart, Gjorge Ivanov. Xi told Ivanov that China is willing to use the cooperation between it and Central and Eastern European countries to achieve further concrete results.