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BEIJING

El Salvador's president coming to visit China

At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele will pay a state visit to China starting from Sunday. During the six-day visit, the two leaders will jointly attend a signing ceremony of cooperative documents. Premier Li Keqiang and top legislator Li Zhanshu will meet with Bukele. The trip will also bring Bukele to Shanghai. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on Friday that bilateral exchanges and cooperation in various fields have been carried out and achieved results since China and El Salvador established diplomatic ties last year. "We believe President Bukele's visit will bring fruitful results and inject a strong driving force into the sustainable, sound and stable development of bilateral relations," Geng said.

Sino-Russian security meetings to be held

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev will come to China to attend the 15th round of the China-Russia strategic security consultation and the sixth China-Russia meeting of institutionalized cooperation in law enforcement and security from Sunday to Wednesday. According to Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang, it will be the first time the two countries have held the two meetings since the China-Russia relationship entered the new era and an important measure to implement the consensuses reached by leaders of the two countries during their several meetings this year. "We believe that the two meetings will further consolidate the two sides' common position in security and push for more outcomes to be achieved in bilateral security cooperation," Geng said.

HEBEI

New species of dinosaur identified

A team of Chinese and foreign scientists have identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur the size of a rooster in Hebei province. The new species, Xunmenglong yingliangis, was a small carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period. Though its fossil was incomplete, scientists presume the dinosaur was about 60 centimeters long and had a long and flexible neck and a light skull, according to Xing Lida, an associate professor at the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and the leader of the team. With small but sharp teeth that had curved edges, the dinosaur was particularly ferocious, Xing said.