Visit to deepen security cooperation with Turkey

President Xi Jinping will attend the two-day G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey, which starts on Sunday, and many are wondering what he will do to deepen relations between the two rising regional powers.

As a bridgehead on the China-proposed Silk Road Economic Belt, which stretches northwest from China's coastal region through Central Asia and culminates in Europe, as well as a leader in the Islamic world, Turkey has a lot to offer in terms of economic, political and security cooperation with China.

Unlike some traditional European powers such as the United Kingdom, Germany and France, and Central Asian countries such as Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Turkey has limited economic complementarity with China. It has neither the cutting-edge technologies nor natural resources like oil and gas that China needs to upgrade its economic structure.