President sees visit as 'going to the home of a good friend'

President Xi Jinping has called on China and Cambodia to "strive together" and "thrive together", in order to promote steady and sustained progress in building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era.

Xi made the remarks in a signed article published by Cambodian media, including the Khmer Times, a leading English-language newspaper in Cambodia, as he started a state visit to the country on Thursday.

Xi described the visit, his second in nine years, as "going to the home of a good friend", saying he wanted to use the visit to spearhead progress in building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future.