member body known as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization comprising China and its five ex-Soviet neighbours. "(Russia and China) will sign agreements in the fields of energy, finance, electricity and other areas," said China's Assistant Foreign Minister Li Hui before the trip. Moscow, for its part, is seeking to persuade China to open up its markets to Russian heavy engineering, power generation and transmission equipment, and civil aircraft. "Russian and Chinese business circles are showing a growing interest in each other," said a Kremlin official. "The leaders ... will discuss greater cooperation in the high-technology sector, especially increasing two-way trade in machines and equipment," Reuters quoted the official as saying.
