Beijing: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has foreshadowed closer military cooperation and joint military exercises with China, and revealed President Xi Jinping has accepted his invitation to address both houses of Australian parliament later this year.

Speaking in Beijing the morning after a state dinner and bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Mr Abbott said personal relationships at senior levels of government had been "very much been enhanced".

"We had a very warm and constructive discussion last night," he told reporters on Saturday, the last day of his week-long visit to Japan, South Korea and Japan. Mr Xi will visit Australia in November for bilateral meetings attached to his attendance at the G20 summit in Brisbane.

Mr Abbott said he was "quite confident" of building on current high-level meetings and exchanges with the world's largest army through the form of "multilateral exercises in the months and years ahead".