Iran and China make economical connections.

A cooperation agreement was signed between Iran's southern province of Khuzestan and China's province of Shandong by their governors general Saturday.

In the signing ceremony, a number of both provinces officials were present when Jafar Hejazi from Iran and Jiang Daming from China signed the agreement.

Hejazi, by referring to the commonalities between the two provinces, such as steel, ore, petrochemicals, agricultural products and industrial manufacturing underlined necessity of using existing potentials for strengthening cooperation.

He called for expansion of cooperation in other fields and invited his Chinese counterpart to pay a visit to Khuzestan province.

The Khuzestan province governor general also called for establishment of working groups to follow the content of the agreement.

Jiang Daming, for his part, welcomed his Iranian counterpart proposals and said in a near future a group of experts from the province will travel to Khuzestan province to consider cooperation fields more deeply.

Khuzestan province governor general, heading a delegation, is visiting China's province of Shandong upon the official invitation of the Chinese governor general.
IRI-China commercial exchange volume hit 20 billion dollars in 2007 and it is predicted that it will reach 26 billion dollars at the end of year 2008.