Heading a high-ranking delegation, Zarif arrived in Chinese capital city of Beijing on Monday at the invitation of the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Under the JCPOA, limits will be put on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal of all economic and financial bans against the Islamic Republic.

No sanctions have yet been lifted and all can be re-imposed if Iran fails to live up to its commitments.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Beijing next week to discuss Iran’s nuclear agreement and efforts to boost ties with China, China’s foreign ministry said on Friday. Not so much the rest of the world – it was busy restoring relations with Tehran, selling it weapons, and inking contracts with Iranian firms.

Zarif had been engaged in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear issue since the beginning of his tenure. Yet President Barack Obama emerged victorious on the Iran nuclear deal in Congress this past week.

That’s also why China has welcomed Iran to join it in multinational organizations, from the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (of which Iran is a founding member) to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Following the agreement, he has paid visits to a number of countries across the world in a bid to expand bilateral relations and find solutions to regional crises.

Wang said China would fulfil its promises and play an active and constructive role in implementing the nuclear agreement.

Some Western analysts have previously said that Iran was close to exhausting its supply of yellowcake – or raw uranium – and that mining it domestically was not cost-efficient.

Iranian officials also pitched the mining and financial sectors and Iran’s automotive industry to raptly listening participants from Austria, Germany, Spain, Italy and elsewhere – more than 3,000 participants each paying a 1,800 euro (more than $2,000) registration fee.