President Li Xiaolin held a banquet for Konstantin Kosachev, the director of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo)  and his party on January 10, 2013.

President Li xiaolin introduced the work of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) to the Russian guests at the banquet. She hoped to develop the cooperation with Rossotrudnichestvo  for further increasing the mutual understanding and traditional friendship between peoples of China and Russia , and to strengthen the exchanges in the fields of youths, local governments and others. Director Konstantin Kosachev was grateful to President Li for her hospitality. He said President Li was the first foreign guest he had received since he worked as the director of Rossotrudnichestvo. The Rossotrudnichestvo was attaching great importance to the friendly cooperative relationship with the CPAFFC. The principal work after he assumed his new post was to comprehensively motivate the initiative of all federal subjects of Russia to engage in people-to-people diplomacy. The extensive response was received, especially from the Far East and regions near to China. The Rossotrudnichestvo would like to expand the cooperative fields and jointly engage in multilateral activities with the CPAFFC. The two sides reached consensuses on strengthening future cooperation and other issues.

The main purpose of Konstantin’s visit to China was to advertise for Yekaterinburg City bidding for the 2020 World Expo. President Li showed her great support of it.

CPAFFC Vice President Li Jianping and Kozlov, Minister Counselor of Russian Embassy to China were present. Accompanied by Vice President Li Jianping, the foreign guests visited the exhibition of the history of CPAFFC.