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MOSCOW, Sept. 18-- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin to discuss bilateral relations. Li arrived at Moscow after holding talks and co-chairing the 24th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian heads of government with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, in St. Petersburg. The Chinese premier firstly extended Chinese President Xi Jinping's sincere greetings to Putin. Recalling his meeting with Medvedev, Li said this visit helped draw a comprehensive plan for exchanges and cooperation between China and Russia in various fields, and achieved a lot of new results. The three-day visit came as the two countries are celebrating the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic ties. During Xi's visit to Russia in June this year, China-Russia relationship was elevated to a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. China and Russia are each other's biggest neighbor, said Li, adding that a healthy and stable development of bilateral relations is not only beneficial to both sides, but also conducive to the region and the world. China is willing to continue to consolidate friendship, deepen cooperation and strengthen exchanges with Russia, as well as jointly safeguard an international system with the United Nations at its core and a multilateral trading system based on the World Trade Organization's rules, which is of great significance for promoting development, prosperity, peace and stability of the world, said the premier. | 
