Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh today met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and discussed improvement of bilateral relations. Singh met Wang on the sidelines of the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting being held IN Beijing to finalise the agenda for this year's BRICS Summit to be held in September in China's Xiamen city. <br/><br/>In his opening remarks, Singh said India would like to strengthen strategic cooperative relationship with China. Incidentally, this is the first time the foreign ministers meeting has been called by a host country holding the BRICS Summit.<br/><br/>China took over the rotating presidency of the BRICS from India after last year's Goa Summit. BRICS is the acronym for an association of the world's five major emerging national economies- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.