Canadian officials said Monday that Chinese President Hu Jintao's latest visit to Canada has significantly boosted bilateral relations.
Things are slowly returning to normal in Toronto as fences have been removed since early this morning from downtown streets. The tall fences blocked part of the downtown streets where G20 spent the weekend discussing global economic and financial issues.
Chinese President Hu Jintao attended the fourth summit of Group of Twenty (G20) in Toronto on Sunday. On the sidelines of the summit, he met with the leaders of Japan and South Korea on Sunday.
Leaders of the United States, Britain, France and Canada on Sunday voiced almost unanimous support to the targets set by the Group of 20 (G20) on advanced economies' debt size, and said they had plans to meet these targets.
Leaders of the G20 countries promised to keep their markets open to the opportunities that trade and investment offer in an effort to speed up the recovery from the sharpest decline of trade in more than seventy years led by the ongoing global economic crisis.
Chinese President Hu Jintao laid out on Sunday a three-point proposal for promoting a strong, sustainable and balanced global economic growth.
Chinese President Hu Jintao left Toronto, the largest city of Canada, on Sunday for home after attending a Group of Twenty (G20) summit, which was aimed at securing the global economic recovery and addressing the economic challenges and risks.
The leaders of Russia, India and China called off a meeting of so-called BRIC countries on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Saturday after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stayed home to deal with severe flooding.
World leaders agreed on Sunday to take separate paths toward shared goals of lasting growth and safer banks as two years of global crisis give way to a fragile economic recovery.
President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Sunday reaffirmed their commitment to advance the strategic and mutually beneficial relationship between the two Asian neighbors.
China said on Saturday that it expects to finalize its consultations on the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s quota reform with G20 partners before the G20 Seoul summit in November.
President Hu Jintao called for a "spirit of unity" from world leaders to shake off the impact of the financial crisis, as the global economy continues to face "systemic and structural" risks with its recovery still unstable. Summit concludes with fiscal targets