MOSCOW, August 21. /TASS/ Relations of comprehensive partnership between Moscow and Beijing are now at their highest, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said.

"Under the strategic leadership of the Chinese and Russian Presidents, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation between China and Russia are now seeing the best period in their history," he said at a roundtable meeting on the 100th birth anniversary of China’s former President Jiang Zemin.

According to the Chinese diplomat, Russian-Chinese relations are characterized by a steady deepening of political mutual trust, and bilateral cooperation "is seeing remarkable achievements, with their international cooperation becoming increasingly close and robust, setting a vivid example for building a new type of relationship between major powers."