Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s visit to the People’s Republic of China
During his visit to the People’s Republic of China Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had several meetings with the leaders of the PRC and of the other countries and with Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee. Vladimir Putin also visited the Opening of the 29th Summer Olympic Games and met with Russian sportsmen in the Olympic village in Beijing.
"The exchange of national years is an unprecedented project in the history of relations between Russia and China. It has given us an opportunity to implement many ideas in the development of our interaction in various fields."
A personnel haemorrhage abroad statistics were discussed during the meeting. For the first time the comprehensive figures about where young people live and what they do were produced.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the meeting with the Russian Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko requested that Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s works be given a well-deserved place in the educational curriculum in general secondary and higher schools.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had a meeting with the Governor of the Samara Region Vladimir Artyakov
The situation in the region and particularly social and economic development, the development of the transport infrastructure and the agriculture were discussed during the meeting.