“Under the strategic leadership of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin ... Sino-Russian relations in the new era remain highly dynamic,” TASS quoted him as saying at a reception on the occasion of International Women's Day.

Hanhui stressed that Russia and China are intensively developing relations at the highest and high levels, and there are record levels of trade between the two countries.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Xi Jinping on his re-election as President of the People's Republic of China.