Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday met with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in the official house of Los Pinos in Mexico City.

During the meeting, Calderon asked Yang to give his regards to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao and celebrated the 4th session of the China-Mexico Permanent Commission to be held on Thursday and Friday also in Mexico City.

Calderon also spoke highly of China's efficient reaction to the world financial crisis and its steady economic growth.

Mexico and China are big developing countries and have huge cooperation potential, Calderon said.

Calderon said that Mexico attaches great importance to strengthening the strategic partnership ties with China and hopes to intensify the exchanges at top level and increase the bilateral trade and investments.

Calderon said he also expects to strengthen the communication and coordination with China at the multilateral mechanisms and jointly react to the global challenges, such as the climate change.

Meanwhile, Yang gave Calderon the regards from President Hu, saying that China and Mexico are important developing countries.

Yang said that under the currently complex and changing international circumstances, the strengthening of the strategic cooperation between China and Mexico, not only benefits the prosperity of both countries, but also is significant to intensify the unity and cooperation among the developing countries.

The strategic cooperation will also raise the integral strength of the developing countries and will promote the peace and development in the world, Yang said.

"China always views the China-Mexico relation at the height of a strategic level and considered Mexico as a good friend, a good partner in Latin America and it sincerely wants to carry out the important consensus reached between the leaders of the two countries," Yang added.

Yang said that China also wants to expand the cooperation and intensify the coordination and collaboration with Mexico over important international issues and further push forward for the strategic partnership relations between China and Mexico.

Finally, Calderon expressed his sympathy for the victims of the recent flooding in many regions of China, while Yang thanked Calderon for his words.