Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Shanghai Monday evening for his five-day visit to China, a move experts say will strengthen the economic ties and the technological cooperation between the two countries.

Netanyahu, re-elected to his third term earlier this year, is scheduled to go up to Beijing on Wednesday, after he met Yang Xiong, mayor of Shanghai, and visited the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum in the city's Hongkou district on Tuesday.

The visit came slightly before the end of the three-day visit by his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday.

"Netanyahu has been endeavoring to boost Israel's development in economic and technological fields, so talks between the two nations this time are likely to focus on these topics," Yin Gang, a researcher of Western Asian and African studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.

"With China's growing economic clout and political influence, any cooperation with China in trading, infrastructure construction and technological communications will be beneficial for Israel," Yin said.

Currently, China is Israel's largest Asian trading partner. Israel's foreign direct investment to China covers areas ranging from renewable resources to biomedicine development.

The two countries might sign an agreement for China to renovate an obsolete railway, Yin said, adding that the nations have been in talks about the agreement for years.

As long as Israel utilizes the tremendous amount of natural gas on the east side of the Mediterranean Sea and has set up large-scale gas fields, China is likely to be the resource's big buyer, he noted, adding that there's huge potential to boost cooperation between the two nations.

Xiao Xian, vice president of Yunnan University and a Middle-East studies scholar, told the Global Times that he expects Israel and Palestine to discuss how China can help mitigate the political standoff.

"China's political status is growing, and the world wants to see the country make efforts in solving the tussles between Israel and Palestine," Xiao said.

Speculation that the two heads might have talks in China earlier went viral, but an Israeli official quoted by the International Finance News said Netanyahu "is not willing to meet Abbas whenever and wherever, and nor is he planning such a meeting during this visit."

The Israeli prime minister also surprised some observers by not mentioning the country's two recent air attacks on Syria, something Yin said Netanyahu was right to skip.

"Netanyahu shouldn't interfere in his visit with China by discussing what happened in Syria," he said, adding that the attacks were a standalone case that would not affect Israel-China relations.