The governments of China and Venezuela signed new cooperation agreements on Thursday, aimed at strengthening strategic ties in energy and raising crude oil production levels. From the Presidential Palace in Miraflores, in Caracas, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that in this first day of work concrete, investment and production agreements were reached that allowed to establish new objectives. "This gives us a goal of increasing production of 277,000 extra barrels, we will reach more than 800,000 barrels a day with China," said Maduro in the presence of the chairman of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Wang Yilin. During the ceremony, the Chinese ambassador to Caracas, Zhao Bentang, and the Venezuelan Minister of Petroleum and Mining, Eulogio del Pino, Maduro also confirmed this. He affirmed that during the meeting, which took take place in the Venezuelan capital, "we will finish the plans in all fields of economic, financial and energy life,...