In an exclusive interview with Xinhua last week, Hun Sen said that Cambodia-China friendly relations of cooperation had rapidly grown over the last decade and predicted that the ties would become stronger and deeper under new Chinese leadership.

"In the last decade, the ties have grown very quickly in politics and in all fields including trade," he said, recalling that in 2012, during the visit of former President Hu Jintao to Cambodia, the two nations agreed to boost the bilateral trade volume to 5 billion U.S. dollars by 2017.

Now, he said, the two nations are in the new stage of further strengthening and promoting this relationship to a deeper and stronger level.

"Under the new term of Chinese leadership, I hope that the Sino- Cambodian relations will be more solid," Hun Sen said. "My forthcoming visit to the People's Republic of China will clearly show the continuation of promoting the bilateral relation to a deeper level."

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