Romania to maintain good relations with China: President

Romania's President Traian Basescu on Thursday expressed wishes to maintain good relations with China in 2012.

"The foreign policy of Romania will reserve a special place to the relation with China this year," the President told the annual meeting with foreign ambassadors in Bucharest.

"I am fully confident 2012 will allow recording important projects, economic ones in particular, amid the implementation of the understandings set as part of the bilateral dialogue held at high level and at the highest level," underscored Basescu.

Bilateral trade volume between China and Romania has been on the rise in recent years. In 2011, bilateral trade is expected to total over 3 billion euros (US$ 3.87 billion).