Leaders join youths to acclaim friendship

President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin jointly pushed for more people-to-people exchanges between China and Russia as they visited the Ocean All-Russia Children's Care Center in the suburbs of Vladivostok on Wednesday.

Ten years ago, the children's center took in Chinese youngsters between ages 9 and 14 who lived in the area of the devastating Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province in May 2008.

The two leaders joined in exchange activities held for a group of the Chinese young people who were visiting the children's center and the Russian teachers and students there on the sidelines of the fourth Eastern Economic Forum.