Chinese premier's Europe trip to yield fruitful cooperation(2)

He added that the two sides will hammer out guidelines defining the directions, fields and measures of medium- and long-term cooperation.

The guidelines, he said, will cover almost all areas, including economy, technology and environmental protection.

The main areas of China-Germany innovative cooperation will include "industry 4.0," a strategic high-tech project of the German government, and urbanization, industrialization, informatization and agricultural modernization, which are China's future priorities, according to the ambassador.

Li is also scheduled to attend the Hamburg Summit, the largest Chinese-European business meeting that takes place every other year in the German city.

According to Shi, the premier is expected to meet representatives from the European Union (EU) and give a keynote speech on China's economy and its relations with Germany and Europe as a whole.

"The speech will enhance Germany and Europe's understanding and confidence about China's reform and development, and push forward our win-win collaboration," Shi said.

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During his stay in Russia, Li will attend a regular meeting between the two countries' prime ministers with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.

As each other's largest neighbor with enormous mutual economic complementarity and broad cooperation prospects, the two nations may highlight cooperation in energy, satellite navigation, infrastructure construction and the joint development of big planes, experts say.

Cooperation between China and Russia is of strategic significance and will not be affected by the volatile international situation or other external factors, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping said Wednesday.

Cheng said China is the number Russia's largest trading partner. Two-way trade reached 89.2 billion U.S. dollars last year, and the two countries plan to raise the volume to 100 billion dollars by 2015 and 200 billion dollars by 2020.

To expand and deepen cooperation is the common aspirations of the peoples of the two countries, Cheng said.