Sino-Russian relations see new breakthroughs in 2015: Chinese ambassador

Relations between China and Russia have made further progress and achieved new breakthroughs in 2015, the year that marked the 66th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic ties, a Chinese diplomat said.

"The China-Russia relationship is the best major-country relationship in the world, because the two countries are guided by principles of equity and equality, as well as fully respect for each other's interests and concerns," Chinese ambassador to Russia Li Hui said in a recent interview with Russian Dostoinstvo magazine.

Each side benefits from their comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination, which is becoming closer and increasingly stable, Li said.

As two rapidly developing economies and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, he said, the two countries jointly support international justice and seek to develop a new type of international relations based on win-win cooperation.

"The two countries have played a special and irreplaceable role in safeguarding peace, stability and development in the world," he added.

This year, both Russia and China held a series of activities to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War, to which both countries made great contributions.

The army and the people of the Soviet Union have toppled Hitler's plans of "Blitzkrieg" (lightening war) and helped reverse the war situation in Europe, while the Chinese people contained the main forces of Japanese militarists, which acted in concert with the allied countries on the European and Pacific fronts and prevented strategic interactions among Japanese, German and Italian fascists, the ambassador said.

"In that bloody war, people of both countries fought shoulder to shoulder, and sacrificed their lives for the sake of peace, and contributed to the creation of a unified world anti-fascist front," Li added.

In May, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Moscow to participate in the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Beijing, where he attended the commemorative events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and in the World Anti-Fascist War.

"Their goal was to preserve the memory of history, to pay tribute to the fallen, jointly safeguard international justice and the results of World War II, strongly condemn and oppose all forms of hegemony, reaffirm their commitment to the UN Charter, safeguard stability and peace in the region and around the world, and to create a more beautiful future for the mankind," said the ambassador.

Top leaders of both countries have agreed on the docking of the China-proposed Silk Road Economic Belt and the Russia-initiated Eurasian Economic Union project, which Li said is a new milestone for bilateral relations, and will create new growth points of economic cooperation. Endi