BEIJING- China's President Xi Jinping and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa discussed bilateral trade issues, a Chinese foreign ministry official said on Tuesday.

The leaders of the two countries talked about trade imbalance issues, Wu Peng, Director-General of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of African Affairs, said, adding that China will try its best to import more high quality products from South Africa.

(Reporting by Ethan Wang in Beijing and Meg Shen in Hong Kong, editing by Ed Osmond)