PARIS, July 4 (UPI) -- French President Jacques Chirac and Li Changchun, a leader in the Communist Party of China, say they want to forge a strategic partnership.
Xinhua, China's main government-run news agency, reported Sunday the two leaders said China and France share the same or similar stands on major international issues as well as common interests.
Chirac said increasingly the political relationship, as well as economic relations between France and China, has become closer.
"All these have created favorable conditions for the deepening of bilateral cooperation and exchanges," he said.
Li said China was willing to push the Sino-French all-around strategic partnership to a new high.
Li's four-day good-will visit to France caps his European trip visiting Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Greece.
