Chinese president meets British prime minister

Source: Xinhua | 04-02-2009 08:38

LONDON, April 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao met British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations and other issues of common concern.

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) meets  with British Prime Minister Gordon  Brown in London, Britain, on April  1, 2009. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

The two leaders are meeting on the sidelines of a Group of Twenty (G20) summit on financial crisis, a follow-up to last November's G20 meeting in Washington.

This is the second meeting between the two leaders in less than five months. Hu and Brown met in Washington during the summit and they discussed bilateral relations and ways of tackling the financial crisis.

As two of the world's leading economies, China and Britain are crucial players in addressing the current unstable economic climate.

"China was one of the first countries to make the announcement that it would attend the Washington summit and we are also one of the countries which are actively cooperating with Britain, host of the upcoming London summit, to ensure its success," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told a press conference on March 7 this year.