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31.05.2006 09:36 [Neftegaz.ru] - China’s president Hu Jintao said on a presentation ahead of a regional security forum summit, that relations between China and Russia have reached an unprecedented high. Hu Jintao added that Russia is China’s most important strategic cooperation partner in an interview with journalists from member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. “The volume of bilateral trade has had seven years of extremely high growth and cooperation in the fields of energy and investment has made great progress,” he said. Trade between China and Russia, who share a 4,300-km (2,700-mile) border, reached nearly $30 billion last year, and the two signed a series of energy agreements during a visit by President Vladimir Putin in March.