Top Chinese lawmaker Li Zhanshu will attend the seventh Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok this week, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, becoming the most senior Chinese official to visit Russia since the start of the war in Ukraine. Li, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, will make official visits to Russia, Mongolia, Nepal and South Korea from Wednesday to September 17, Xinhua reported. During his stay in Russia, he will participate in a four-day forum that is scheduled to begin on Monday.
Li, currently ranked third in the Chinese Communist Party, is due to step down from his party post at the party congress next month, but will retain his parliamentary position until March. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced a “no-holds-barred” strategic partnership in February, weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in what Putin calls a “special military operation.”
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