Suu Kyi meets China president during visit

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met in Beijing.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met Chinese President Xi Jinping during a visit to strengthen ties with her country's powerful northern neighbour.

Xi said on Friday that he hopes Suu Kyi's five-day visit will boost "strategic co-operation between our two nations".

The sides have already discussed the fate of a stalled $US3.6 billion ($A4.68 billion) dam project in northern Myanmar funded primarily by Chinese energy interests.

Overwhelming local opposition to the Myitsone dam project led Myanmar's previous president, Thein Sein, to suspend it.

Chinese officials have pushed for Suu Kyi to re-start construction. China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday that the two countries agreed to try to find a "proper solution".

Suu Kyi leads Myanmar's government with the title of state counsellor after her party won elections last year.


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