Serbian and Chinese farmers can be hopeful about more bilateral trade after Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Premier Li Keqiang met on Friday in Beijing and discussed expanding cooperation in agriculture and infrastructure. 

Premier Li welcomed greater cooperation with Serbia within the 16+1 mechanism, which refers to China and the 16 Central and Eastern European countries. 

Li also called on both sides to work towards the construction of a Serbia-Hungary railway and strengthen people-to-people exchanges.

Nikolic said Serbia welcomes investments from Chinese enterprises and urged greater cooperation in infrastructure and production capacity projects as well as exploring opportunities in foreign markets.