Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Saturday hosted a welcome ceremony for visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Xi arrived in the capital Belgrade on Friday for a state visit. This is the first leg of his three-nation visit, which will also take him to Poland and Uzbekistan. Xi will attend the 16th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of State in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent.
This is the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Serbia in 32 years, and also Xi's second trip to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in less than three months.
During his visit, Xi will meet Nikolic and other Serbian political leaders for discussions on bilateral relations, the Belt and Road Initiative and China-CEE cooperation, as well as global and regional hot-spot issues of common concern.
A number of cooperation deals covering economy, trade, industrial capacity and finance are expected to be inked.
China and Serbia share a time-honored traditional friendship. In 2009, Serbia became the first CEE country to establish a strategic partnership with China.
Nikolic paid a state visit to China in 2013. Last year, he went to Beijing again to attend the commemorative activities marking the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Serbia also dispatched a formation to participate in China's V-Day military parade on Sept. 3, 2015.
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