Beijing, May 4 (Reporter) Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Russia from May 7 to 10 to attend the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow. The Chinese President's visit is at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Sunday.President Xi and President Putin have guided China-Russia relations in the new era to always forge ahead despite a complex external environment and demonstrate the relations' defining features of everlasting good-neighbourliness and friendship, comprehensive strategic coordination and mutual benefit, cooperation and win-win, the spokesperson said. The spokesperson said that during the upcoming state visit, President Xi will hold strategic talks with President Putin on China-Russia relations and on a series of major international and regional issues."We believe the important common understandings between the two presidents will further deepen political mutual trust between the two countries, add new substance to strategic coordination, promote practical cooperation in various fields, bring more benefits to the two peoples, and contribute more stability and positive energy to the international community," the spokesperson said.This year also marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN, the spokesperson said, noting that China and Russia, as founding members of the UN and permanent members of the UN Security Council, shoulder special and important responsibility in safeguarding the international system with the UN at its core."The two countries will further strengthen their close coordination in the UN, SCO, BRICS and other multilateral platforms, rally the Global South, shape global governance in the right direction, unequivocally oppose acts of unilateralism and bullying, and jointly promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization," the spokesperson said...////...