Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie left today for an official visit to Russia, dpa quoted local media as reporting. At the invitation of his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov, Liang will attend the defence ministers' meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Moscow, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was founded in 2001 to enhance cooperation between its six member states China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.