A majority of Serbians see China as a friendly country and President Aleksandar Vucic as the politician promoting relations with Beijing, a poll by the Institute for European Affairs and Smart Plus Research showed.

According to the poll, 75 percent of Serbians think China is friendly and 64 percent believe Serbia-China relations will get better. It showed that 42 percent of the polled have a positive view of social order in China with 72 percent of young people supporting Chinese investments in Serbia.

Just 3.8 percent said they had a negative view of relations with China.

The polled said their main sources of information about China-Serbia relations is TV (30.2 percent) the Internet (27.6 percent) and social networks.

Almost half (49.7 percent) said China was the country that provided the most aid to Serbia during the COVID pandemic with just 14.3 percent saying most of the aid came from the European Union and 4.7 percent saying Russia.

Two thirds of the polled support Chinese investments and 16.9 percent said those investments are not welcome.