China's National People's Congress (NPC) will work with the Russian State Duma to strengthen coordination and cooperation in international and regional parliamentary organizations, as well as cooperation in some other fields, said Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo in Beijing on Friday.

Wu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, noted that these fields include legislation, implementation of laws, promotion of implementation of large-scale projects and people-to-people exchanges.

He told K. I. Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of the State Duma, that the parliaments of the two countries should strengthen cooperation so as to serve the development of bilateral relations.

Wu said the exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in various fields will become closer and some major cooperation projects will make substantial progress, as the activities in the Year of Russia are vigorously carried out in China.

Kosachev echoed Wu's views, saying that the Russian side is willing to join hands with China to make concrete achievements in bilateral parliamentary cooperation.

(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2006)