The Chinese leader spoke these words during a gathering in Beijing with Viacheslav Volodin, president of the State Duma, or lower chamber of the Russian parliament. Xi besides stated that the improvement of Russian-Chinese relations is in the primary interest of both nations and “is a unchangeable origin of planet peace”. Beijing and Moscow's relations called "the most stable, mature, and strategically established between the 2 powers in today's turbulent and changing world.".