Tour with win-win results

Updated: 2013-04-01 07:47

By China Daily (China Daily)

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 Tour with win-win results

President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, bid farewell as they board their plane at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 25. Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

 Tour with win-win results

Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (right) meets President Xi Jinping in Moscow on March 23. Vadim Savitsky / AFP

President Xi Jinping arrived in Beijing on Sunday morning after visits to Russia, Tanzania, South Africa and the Republic of Congo.

In South Africa, Xi also attended the fifth leaders' summit of BRICS countries held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Durban. BRICS is an economic bloc representing five of the world's leading emerging economies - China, Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa.

Xi's entourages, including his wife Peng Liyuan and other officials, all arrived together in Beijing.

Xi left Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, on Saturday at noon local time for Beijing after the last leg of his four-nation tour.

Xi's visit to Russia has enhanced bilateral strategic mutual trust and support and expanded practical cooperation between the two countries, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the media on Sunday.

The international community has lauded Xi's first visit to Africa as the head of state, and his attendance at the BRICS summit, saying he sent a positive signal of friendship, cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results to the whole world.

Xinhua contributed to this story.

 Tour with win-win results

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete holds a key given by President Xi Jinping during the opening ceremony of the Julius Nyerere International Convention Center in Dar es Salaam on March 25. Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

 Tour with win-win results

President Xi Jinping and Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso prepare to cut the ribbon during the inauguration of the Chinese-built library at Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville on Saturday. AFP Photo

 Tour with win-win results

Above: BRICS leaders, from left, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Xi Jinping, South African President Jacob Zuma, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pose for a group picture during the BRICS 2013 Summit in Durban, South Africa, on Wednesday. Below: South Africa's first lady Bongi Ngema proposes a toast to her Chinese counterpart Peng Liyuan as South Africa's President Jacob Zuma looks on during an official lunch hosted by Zuma and his wife in honor of President Xi Jinping and his wife in Pretoria on Tuesday.

Tour with win-win results

(China Daily 04/01/2013 page3)

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