Chinese and Russian officials in charge of the Chinese-Russian Committee of Friendship, Peace and Development met to discuss ways to boost bilateral relations.

Visiting Chinese chair of the committee Li Guixian and his Russian counterpart, Leonid Drachevsky, summarized the recent progress, and exchanged views on how to strengthen non-governmental exchanges between the two countries.

The two sides also signed the work plan of the committee for 2008.

Li, who arrived in Moscow Wednesday, is on a five-day working visit to Russia. On Thursday, he also held talks with Yevgeny Primakov, Russia's honorary chairman of the committee.

The committee was established in 1997 under the proposal of the two countries' heads of state with a view to deepening understanding and friendship and promoting good neighborly cooperation between China and Russia.