Kuwaiti emir in China to focus on energy ties

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Source: AFP

BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese President Hu Jintao met on Sunday with the visiting emir of Kuwait as energy-hungry China and the oil-rich Gulf state look to push economic ties to a higher level.

Hu welcomed Sheik Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah to China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, with the Kuwaiti leader saying the two sides plan to see a number of agreements signed.

"I believe these agreements will push Kuwait-China relations to a higher level," he told Hu, giving no details.

The two sides in 2005 signed a deal to build an oil refinery in southern China's Guangdong province in what Chinese state media has previously called the nation's largest ever joint venture.



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