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Xi plans Russia visit as soon as next week
China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the Kremlin declined to comment.
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China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose with Mongolia's President during their trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand on September 15, 2022.
(AFP/Sputnik)
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hinese President Xi Jinping is planning to travel to Russia's capital, Moscow, to meet his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as soon as next week, people familiar with the matter said.
China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the Kremlin declined to comment.
No other details were immediately available.
The sources briefed on the matter declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the issue.
Xi on Monday emphasised the need to strengthen national security, in his first address since being handed a historic third term as the country's president.
Xi became China's most powerful leader in generations last week when he was reanointed for another five years at the helm of the world's most populous nation, in a break with long-standing political precedent.
The National People's Congress (NPC) -- a carefully choreographed conclave of China's rubber-stamp parliament -- also appointed a key Xi ally, Li Qiang, as the new premier.
Xi, 69, on Monday thanked the thousands of delegates at Beijing's Great Hall of the People for giving him a third term, vowing to "take the needs of the country as my mission, and the interests of the people as my yardstick".
"Security is the bedrock of development, while stability is a prerequisite for prosperity," Xi told the assembled delegates at the NPC's closing session.
