BEIJING, April 27 (INP): China believes that its military-to-military cooperative partnership with Pakistan facilitate state-to-state relationship and also contribute to regional peace and stability. China and Pakistan share an all-weather strategic cooperative partnership. The two sides have maintained a very high-level defense and military exchanges and cooperation, said senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang of China’s Ministry of Defence. Commenting on Sino-Pak military exchanges at a recently held news briefing, he said the military exchanges and cooperation programs between the two countries this year are still being discussed. About China and Russia relationship in the defence sector, he said they are each other’s primary and most important strategic partner. China-Russia relationship is the best major-country relationship in today’s world. This relationship is as firm as a rock. In recent years, with the personal care of President Xi and President Putin, the state-to-state and mil-to-mil relations between the two countries have been developing at a high level with ever-deepening cooperation and mutual trust. China, he added is willing to work with Russia, jointly push forward the mil-to-mil relationship, and make active contribution to safeguard common interests and maintain regional and world peace and stability. About the Chinese military’s recent achievements, the spokesperson said, since the 18th Party Congress, under the personal efforts make by President Xi in designing, leading and encouraging, the strategy of civil-military integrated development proceeds to its full implementation. The organizational structure has basically taken shape, overall strategic guidance, planning and coordination have been greatly strengthened, reform in key areas has steadily press ahead, priority projects have been gradually put into practice and relevant legislation programs have been pacing up. The development of civil-military integration is deepening and enhancing at all levels and in all areas, demonstrating a good momentum of integrated and accelerated development. To further deepen civil-military integration at the new historic starting point, it is imperative for us to act in the spirit of the 19th National Party Congress in an all-round way, fully understand and implement the Xi Jinping thought on socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the new era, uphold the Xi Jinping thought on building a strong military and his strategic thinking on civil-military integrated development, take the building of an integrated national strategies and capabilities as the goal, take problem-oriented approaches, focus on the priorities of strategic importance, and make efforts in the following four aspects: The first is to enhance strategic guidance. It is imperative for us to grasp the strategic positioning and the general requirement of civil-military integrated development, build a concept of openness and sharing, and better integrate military development into national economic and social development. The second is to promote reform and innovation. We are bound to improve the systems and mechanisms of civil-military integration, solve the problems lying in the current policies, systems and mechanisms, remove the barriers for easy access, and allow the furthest release of the endogenous force of civil-military integration. The third is to enhance civil-military coordination. We shall look into and solve the problems on aligning needs, coordinating and sharing important resources, and developing a coordinated system of innovation, so as to enhance the scope of civil-military coordination from what can and should be integrated to a deeper and wider extent. The fourth is to strengthen implementation. We shall take the national demonstration zones of innovation and priority projects in civil-military integration as the lead, the area, such as infrastructure, armament and equipment, defense technology, personnel training, logistic support and defense mobilization, and the emerging domains, such as oceans, airspace, cyberspace, bio-technology and new energy, as priorities, and push forward the implementation of the key tasks and projects of civil-military integration, he added. INP/J/AJ