(ANSA) - BELGRADE, 10 FEB - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he agrees with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping's stance in favor of multilateralism and ever more significant and more intense cooperation on a global level to face and overcome the biggest common challenges together. Speaking at the annual summit between China and 17 Balkan and Central Eastern European countries, which took place yesterday online, Vucic recalled the Chinese President's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in which Xi stressed that a divided world could not overcome the common challenges which the whole of humanity is facing. Then Vucic commented positively on the substantial increase in trade between the countries of central and south-eastern Europe and China. Last year, Vucic said, China was Serbia's third-biggest trading partner, for an amount of 3.7 billion dollars, an increase of 30% compared to 2018. Vucic then underlined the importance of Chinese investments in Serbia in recent years, citing, in particular, those in the large steel plant of Smederevo, in the Bor mining area, and the construction of the Belgrade underground. (ANSA).