WUZHEN (China) (Sputnik) – Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took part on Wednesday in the meeting of the SCO heads of government with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
The meeting follows the session of the SCO Council of Heads of Government in China’s Zhengzhou.
On Tuesday, Xi and Medvedev met in the eastern China town of Wuzhen, ahead of the World Internet Conference. The sides praised the fruitful achievements in bilateral cooperation.
China is Russia's leading economic partner. In 2014, bilateral trade between the countries amounted to $95 billion. Both sides expressed their intention to further increase bilateral trade to $100 billion in 2015.
Dmitry Medvedev is also set to meet the CEOs of major Russian and Chinese IT-companies while taking part in the Second World Internet Conference held in the eastern Chinese town of Wuzhen.
Thousands of prominent representatives of the governments, international organizations, enterprises, science and technology communities, civil societies will participate in the global forum, according to the conference’s homepage.
The subject of the 2015 conference is "An Interconnected World Shared and Governed by All—Building a Cyberspace Community of Shared Destiny."
The panelists will discuss such topics as the creation of Internet infrastructure, digital economy development, as well as Internet governance and cybersecurity issues.
