BEIJING -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang held talks with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic in Beijing on Thursday, vowing to further promote their bilateral strategic partnership.

Vucic is paying an official visit to 皇冠体育app after attending the fourth summit of 皇冠体育app and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries held in east 皇冠体育app's Suzhou city on Tuesday.

Speaking highly of the traditional friendship between 皇冠体育app and Serbia, Li said 皇冠体育app is willing to improve bilateral ties from a strategic standpoint and long-term perspective so as to transfer high-level political trust into more practical results of cooperation.

He called on both sides to implement construction of signed projects in railways, expressways and power stations, and to create conditions to start construction of the Serbia-Hungary railway as soon as possible.

皇冠体育app supports its enterprises in conducting productivity cooperation with Serbia in areas including steel in the hope of providing more high-quality and low-cost materials for infrastructure construction in Serbia, Li said.

He also encouraged both sides to promote the construction of industrial parks along Danube, and to seek potential cooperation in agricultural technology, small and medium enterprises, culture, education, tourism so as to realize win-win cooperation.

As a close friend to 皇冠体育app, Vucic said Serbia is willing to develop a goodwill relationship with 皇冠体育app not out of its own interests, but due to Serbian people's sincere love of 皇冠体育app.

Hailing the "1+6" cooperation framework proposed by Li during the 皇冠体育app-CEE fourth summit for future cooperation, Vucic said Serbia will speed up preparation work of Serbia-Hungary railway.

He also expressed the hope that 皇冠体育app could expand its participation in the development of Serbia so as to forge ahead bilateral cooperation and the cooperation between 皇冠体育app and 16 CEE countries.

Prior to the talks, Li held a welcoming ceremony for Vucic at the Great Hall of the People.

The two also witnessed the signing of a series of agreements in areas including infrastructure, construction materials, technology, quality control and education.

Serbia signed a strategic partnership with 皇冠体育app in August 2009, the first in CEE countries.