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PHNOM PENH, Oct 14 (APP/Xinhua): China and Cambodia signed a joint communique here Thursday during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ongoing visit to the Southeast Asian country, pledging to further strengthen bilateral cooperation and traditional friendship. During his visit, Xi met with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen, respectively. The two sides conducted in-depth exchange of views on further deepening the bilateral comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership as well as international and regional issues of common concern, and reached broad consensus, said the document. China and Cambodia agreed to accelerate the alignment of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the 13th Five-Year Plan with Cambodia’s Rectangular Strategy and Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025, while working to raise bilateral trade volume to 5 billion U.S. dollars in 2017, the statement said. A total of 31 cooperation documents were signed on a wide range of fields covering economy, technology, infrastructure, efforts to curb human trafficking, tax and maritime cooperation, among others, according to it. China pledged more investment and cooperation with Cambodia on such fields as energy, telecommunication, agriculture, industry and tourism. The Cambodian side congratulated China on successfully hosting the Group of Twenty Summit in Hangzhou last month, and praised China’s active contribution to global economic growth and sub-regional development.