China, Austria agree to establish friendly strategic partnership

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday held talks with visiting Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. They agreed to establish a Sino-Austrian friendly strategic partnership and advance bilateral pragmatic cooperation to a new level.

After the talks, the two sides released a joint statement on establishing the friendly strategic partnership .

The Austrian president is in Beijing on a state visit to China, and will then travel to Boao in Hainan province to attend the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2018.