According to the First Vice President’s website, Mohammad Mokhber said today (Tuesday, December 13), in the meeting of the Iran-China Comprehensive Cooperation Program, which was held in the presence of Hu Chunhua, the Vice Prime Minister of China, and the high-ranking Chinese delegation, described the relations between the two countries as long-standing and historical, and stated: “Tehran-Beijing relations have a high status for both countries and the [Iranian] president is seriously following the relations between them.”

Referring to Iran's oil and gas reserves and the vast capacities of the country in various sectors such as transit, he added: “Tehran is ready to expand its cooperation with Beijing in various sectors such as energy, transit and joint production.”

The first vice president stated: “Despite the high volume of commercial and economic exchanges between Tehran and Beijing, the use of the national currency of the two countries in these exchanges is at a minimum level, and we should expand it and use the national currencies as much as possible.”