BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi
Jinping met with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal Wednesday
afternoon and they pledged to boost the comprehensive strategic
partnership between the two countries.
"China and Algeria are bothers," Xi said during the
meeting at the Great Hall of the People, hailing mutual support, mutual
trust and solid friendship between the two countries in their efforts
for national independence, sovereignty and prosperity as well as world
peace and development.
China and Algeria announced the comprehensive
strategic partnership in February 2014 on the 55th anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic relations and the 10th anniversary of
strategic cooperation between the two countries.