Vital deals signed on Xi's trip to Mongolia

Agreements cover the mineral trade, transportation links, energy demand

China and Mongolia signed more than a dozen key infrastructure and energy cooperation agreements on Thursday aimed at boosting landlocked Mongolia's mineral trade and poor transportation links while meeting China's growing energy demand.

Among 26 cooperation agreements signed on the first day of the first state visit by a Chinese president to Mongolia in more than a decade, 17 cover trade, infrastructure, energy and financial cooperation.