Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Mexican counterpart Patricia Espinosa agreed?in Mexico City?Thursday to enhance strategic cooperation between their countries.

During the talks, the two highly appreciated the healthy growth of the 7-year-old China-Mexico strategic partnership, and concurred that strengthening bilateral strategic cooperation will significantly contribute to the development of both countries.

Meanwhile, as both China and Mexico are large developing countries and key members of multilateral international organizations, a stronger link between them is also of great significance to the political multipolarization and the democratization of international relations, they stressed.

In order to deepen their strategic cooperation, the two sides agreed to continue conducting high-level exchanges and enhancing political mutual trust, and to further improve the mechanism of the China-Mexico Permanent Binational Commission to better plan and facilitate their joint causes in various fields.

Meanwhile, the two top diplomats underscored the need to further expand mutual investment and broaden cooperation on trade, agriculture, infrastructure construction, tourism and people-to-people exchange.

The two countries should also consolidate communication and coordination under international frameworks, such as the United Nations and the Group of 20 major economies, so as to create a stronger voice for and defend the interests of developing countries, they said.

China supports Mexico in hosting a climate change summit later this year, said Yang, adding his country is ready to help achieve sound progress at the conference in line with the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities."

The two sides are also committed to promoting the dialogues and cooperation between China and Latin American countries, said the two foreign ministers.

Yang and Espinosa jointly presided over the opening ceremony of the fourth meeting of the Mexico-China Permanent Binational Commission, a high-level platform for the two countries to discuss their cooperation in various fields.

Over 150 delegates from both countries are expected to attend the two-day talks, whose previous three sessions took place in 2004, 2006 and 2008.