President Vladimir Putin hailed Moscow's growing bilateral ties with its communist neighbour, saying "We have resolved almost all the essential political questions between our two countries."

"There are vast possibilities for interregional cooperation. We intend to develop our military ties and cooperation between our defence ministries," he said at the close of talks.

Chinese president Hu Jintao highlighted what he said were the countries' common security goals.

"We are increasing coordination and cooperation on important regional and international questions, such as guaranteeing stability in Central Asia, the Shanghai group, the form of the United Nations and the nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula," Hu told journalists.

Hu's four-day visit, which began Thursday, will take him to energy-rich Siberia, where he will meet regional leaders in the city of Novosibirsk.

From there, he will head to a regional security summit in Kazakhstan and then the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Scotland.

But an eye-catcher for analysts was a joint declaration signed by Putin and Hu concerning the "international order in the 21st century," seen by some Russia media as an effort to repulse Washington's growing influence, particularly in Central Asia. The document, distributed on Friday, asserts the "inadmissibility of efforts at monopolising world affairs, the dividing of states into leaders and led, the imposition from outside of models of social development, the application of double standards."