Leading a high-ranking economic and political delegation, Raisi arrived in the Chinese capital early on Tuesday. The three-day visit takes place at the official invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
It is Raisi’s first visit to China and a first state visit by an Iranian president to the East Asian country in 20 years.
The Global Times wrote in its Tuesday editorial that Raisi’s visit is of great importance for mutual and international relations, adding that Iran and China are expected to sign several key deals during the visit to further expand their bilateral ties.
“In his meeting with President Raisi during the SCO Summit in Samarkand last year, President Xi mentioned that China views China-Iran relations from a strategic and long-term perspective,” said the article.
“As two ancient civilizations in Asia, China and Iran are now important industrialized powers and energy producers respectively. The two countries are highly complementary economically, and both have a strong desire for development,” it added.
The editorial went on to say that China has been Iran's largest trading partner while Iran is one of the most important markets for China's overseas project contracting and exports of complete sets of equipment and technology.
“Iran is an important country in the process of China's high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative through joint efforts, and China is the target partner of Iran's “looking east” policy,” it said.
The Chinese daily said that growing cooperation between Iran and China can foil Washington’s plots to isolate the two countries.
It said that Beijing and Tehran are determined to expand their economic relations despite efforts in the US and in the West to portray China’s growing cooperation with Iran as a blow to US efforts to isolate Iran.
“China and Iran do not need to act according to their attitude, and it is even less likely that the two sides will reduce exchanges because some people are unhappy,” wrote the newspaper.
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