While China has long sought to cultivate closer ties with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries because of its need for oil , a tour of China , India and other Asian countries this year by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and a state visit to Riyadh by President Hu Jintao in April have done much to encourage nonoil financial transactions between the countries .
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