Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visits to Russia and Tajikistan helped enhance mutual trust, deepen cooperation and promote development, said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi late Thursday.

From Monday to Thursday, Wen paid official visits to Russia and Tajikistan. He also attended the 15th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian prime ministers in Russia and the ninth Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) prime ministers' meeting in Tajikistan.

Yang described the visits as a major diplomatic action of China in the Eurasia region when the world situation is undergoing complex changes.

Wen's visits were aimed at strengthening solidarity and mutual trust, deepening mutually beneficial cooperation, and boosting common development, which are shared desires of all member countries of the SCO, he said.

During Wen's visits, China signed a total of 50 bilateral and multilateral documents with the related parties.

Deepen Sino-Russian Strategic trust and pragmatic cooperation

China and Russia are each other's largest neighbors and important strategic coordination partners, Yang said.

In recent years, mutual political and strategic trust between the two countries have deepened further, and cooperation in various fields has scored remarkable achievements, he said.

Next year, the two countries would mark the 10th anniversary of the signing of the China-Russia treaty of good neighborliness, friendship and cooperation, which will be a new historic opportunity for the Sino-Russian ties, he said.

In Russia, Wen met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and held talks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The leaders exchanged views sincerely on the Sino-Russian ties as well as the strategic issues and reached consensus.