SOCHI, November 8. /TASS/. The level of trust between Russia and China is at the highest point in modern history, President Vladimir Putin said.

"I would like to say that the level of trust between Russia and China is at its highest point in modern history," he said at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

The head of state recalled that the trade turnover between Russia and China is about 240 billion dollars.

According to the president, his friendly relations with Chinese President Xi Jinping are "a very good pledge for the development of interstate relations," and relations between Russia and China are of an unprecedented high character, based on mutual trust, "which we lack in our relations with other countries, first of all with the Western ones.".