China and Canada agreed Friday morning on building a strategic partnership aimed at promoting the long-term and steady development of bilateral relations.
The agreement on raising China-Canada relationship from a partnership of all-round cooperation mapped out in 1997 to a strategic partnership was reached between visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin during their two-hour talks.

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周五上午,中加二国同意了建立战略伙伴关系, 旨在推进双边关系长期稳定的发展。
中加两国从1997年建立的全方位合作伙伴关系提升到（现在的）战略伙伴关系这一协议，是到访的中国胡锦涛主席与加拿大总理保罗. 马丁在两小时的会谈中达成的.