China will, as always, attach great importance to Sino-Brazilian relations from a strategic perspective, said visiting senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) He Guoqiang here Tuesday.

He, member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting with President Garibaldi Alves Filho of the Federal Senate of Brazil.

He, also secretary of the CPC's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said the Chinese side will work with the Brazilian side to continue to push forward the development of bilateral strategic partnership.

Alves said Brazil-China parliamentary exchanges have played a positive and important role in promoting bilateral strategic partnership, and the Brazilian Federal Senate will further strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China's National People's Congress, China's legislative body.

At a meeting here Tuesday with President Arlindo Chinaglia of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, He said it is in the fundamental interest of both sides to further promote bilateral relations.

He said he hoped that both sides will seize the historical opportunity to raise bilateral reciprocal cooperation to a new level so as to make such cooperation a model of south-south cooperation.

Chinaglia said closer parliamentary relations between the two sides will not only help enhance the understanding and friendship between the two peoples, but also help promote bilateral strategic partnership.

He, who started the visit to Brazil on Friday after a goodwill visit to Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago, also attended a signing ceremony here Tuesday for agreements on bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

Brazil is the third leg of He's four-country visit that will also take him to Angola.