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Chinese Communist Party’s No3 to Visit Russia Economic Forum

Li Zhanshu will be at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok this week and will also visit Mongolia, Nepal and South Korea


National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee Chairman Li Zhanshu speaks at the second plenary session of the NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
National People's Congress Standing Committee Chairman Li Zhanshu speaking at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Photo: Reuters

 

China’s top lawmaker will become the most senior Chinese official to visit Russia since the Ukraine war began when he attends the seventh Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok this week.

Li Zhanshu, chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, will pay official visits to Russia, Mongolia, Nepal and South Korea from Wednesday, according to the Xinhua news agency on Sunday. He will attend the four-day forum, set to begin on Monday, during his stay in Russia, it said. 

 

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Li, currently ranked No3 in the Chinese Communist Party, is due to retire from his Party position at a Party congress next month, but will keep his parliamentary position until March.

China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced a “no limit” strategic partnership in February, weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in what Putin calls “a special military operation.”

 

  • Reuters with additional editing by Sean O’Meara

 

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Sean O'Meara

Sean O'Meara is an Editor at Asia Financial. He has been a newspaper man for more than 30 years, working at local, regional and national titles in the UK as a writer, sub-editor, page designer and print editor. A football, cricket and rugby fan, he has a particular interest in sports finance.