MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes his upcoming talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in May will bolster an unprecedentedly high level of bilateral relations.

"Our next contacts with President Xi Jinping are scheduled for May 14-15, within the framework of an international conference organized by the Chinese leadership and aimed at the development of economic cooperation in the region and in the world," the president said as he met on Wednesday with Director of the General Office of the Communist Party of China Li Zhanshu.

He said Russia had from the start backed these plans, all the more as "they correlate with Russia’s plans for developing cooperation and integration processes in the post-Soviet space".