Chinese and Russia presidents at a meeting held in Vladivostok on Friday, reached broad consensus on major issues of common concern and on deepening the comprehensive China-Russia strategic cooperative partnership.

Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, at a meeting held in Vladivostok city of Russia on Friday, reached broad consensus on major issues of common concern and on deepening the comprehensive China-Russia strategic cooperative partnership, Chinese Xinhua news agency reported.

The two presidents met on the sidelines of the 20th informal economic leaders' meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, their third meeting since Putin assumed office in May.

Hu said that during the Beijing Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in June, he and Putin held talks in a sincere, extensive and pragmatic way and jointly set the principles, direction and key cooperative areas of the development of China-Russia relations for the coming years.

Hu put forward a seven-point proposal on further advancing bilateral links, which included deepening strategic mutual trust and support, strengthening cooperation in key areas of investment, implementing the China-Russia Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation for the period of 2013-2016, establishing a cooperative mechanism on security and law enforcement, setting up a mechanism of regular meetings, setting programs of action for bilateral humanistic exchanges for the next 10 years, and ensuring the success of national tourism year activities in both countries between young people.

Hu added that the two states need to coordinate and cooperate closely on major regional and international issues, jointly safeguard the tenet and principles of the U.N. Charter and basic norms of international relations.

Putin said the Russia-China relations have been progressing on a very high level and have yielded rich fruits thanks to the personal contributions of both leaders.

The Russian president said that both sides have made progress in cooperation in the fields of aviation, space, natural gas, oil, nuclear energy, etc.

Putin said that Russia is willing to work with China to comprehensively implement the consensus reached by the leaders of the two nations and escalate the China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership to a new height.

Russia attaches great importance to China's significant role in Asia-Pacific affairs and is ready to improve bilateral coordination and cooperation and jointly promote peace, stability and development in the region, Putin said.