China's top official, Yang Jiechi, will visit Russia for a 16-nation strategic and security summit between the two countries from Monday, China's foreign ministry said on Sunday.
Yang, director of the 25-member Politburo-based Communist Party's central committee, will also visit Slovenia and Croatia, spokesman Zhao Lijian said in a statement posted on its website. The tour will end on May 27.
Beijing and Moscow have been seeking to strengthen bilateral ties, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying in March that relations between the two countries were "the best in history."
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for continued nuclear cooperation between the two countries on Wednesday as he and Russian President Vladimir Putin watched the launch of a video link to a joint venture project building four nuclear power plants in China.
In a telephone call at the end of 2020, Xi and Putin promised to intensify "strategic cooperation" as the world enters a "period of global turmoil," citing challenges posed by the U.S.
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