Chinese
President Xi Jinping held a welcoming ceremony for King Salman bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia at the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing on Thursday. The two heads of state oversaw the signing of deals
worth potentially 65 billion US dollars.
At
the invitation of Xi, King Salman is paying a state visit to China from
March 15 to 18. The visit comes after Xi’s state visit to Saudi Arabia
in January 2016, when the two countries established a comprehensive
strategic partnership, “injecting new impetus into the China-Saudi
Arabia relations in the new era,” Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson
Hua Chunying said at a press conference on Monday.
