China vows to cement all-round strategic partnership with Belarus

Zhang Dejiang (L), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), attends a signing ceremony of a joint statement concerning cooperation between the NPC and the National Assembly of Belarus with Chairman Mikhail Myasnikovich of the Belarusian Council of the Republic and Chairman Vladimir Andreichenko of the House of Representatives after their talks, in Minsk, Belarus, April 17, 2017. Zhang paid an official goodwill visit to Belarus on April 16-18. (Xinhua/Li Tao)