President of Mongolia Khaltmaa Battulga met President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 4th Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia.

At the beginning of the meeting President Battulga requested President Xi Jinping to support certain matters, including the establishment of the Northeast Asian super grid for energy, construction of gas pipes between China and Russia through the Mongolian territory, cooperation on ranking the projects within the Mongolia-Russia-China Economic Corridor program, and value-added export of agricultural products. Also, President Battulga made certain proposals including on establishing a joint working group to build a highway connecting Zamyn-Uud with Altanbulag.
President Xi Jinping expressed his readiness to cooperate in many areas, including complex reform of the comprehensive strategic partnership relations between the two countries, increase of bilateral trade turnover to USD 10 billion by 2020, railway construction, development of process manufacturing, and regional peace and security. President Xi Jinping supported the joint implementation of President Battulga’s proposals.
The heads of state of Mongolia and China exchanged views on celebration of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, which will fall next year, and mutually and economically beneficial development of cross-border cooperation.