Chinese Ambassador to Russia: In 2020, China will become the first export target country of Russian meat products

MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- China will become the first export country of Russian meat products in 2020, and the results of mutual access and cooperation between China and Russia in the meat market will be remarkable, reflecting the development trend of good cooperation between the two sides in this field, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanxuan said in an exclusive interview with the satellite news agency.
In response to a question about China's imports of Russian pork, Zhang said that Opening up the market for high-quality agricultural and sideline products to each other and enriching the types of market supply between the two countries is mutually beneficial cooperation and is of great significance for enhancing the well-being of the two peoples and deepening economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.
2018 and 2020, Respectively, China opened its markets to frozen poultry and beef in Russia, and this year, China became the number one exporter of Russian meat products," he said.
From January to October this year, China imported 290 million U.S. dollars in meat products from Russia, an increase of nearly five times year-on-year.
" Chinese ambassador said that pork as a meat products in high demand in the market, market mutual access by the two sides of the relevant enterprises of high concern, because the African swine fever problem has not been effectively resolved, the current development of this cooperation is facing objective difficulties.
hope that Russia will continue to strengthen prevention and control, strive for an early solution to the African swine fever problem, and create a precondition for restarting negotiations on mutual access to the pork market between the two sides.
Said he noted the high level of business concern over exports of Russian pork to China.
he said that the competent government departments of the two sides have agreed to carry out exchanges and cooperation in the prevention and control of swine fever in Africa, continue to maintain communication at the expert level, jointly address the challenges of the swine fever epidemic in Africa, and work together to remove obstacles to cooperation in pork market access.
earlier, the head of the Russian Export Center's China office, Barsunaev, said in an interview with the satellite news agency that Russia and China are in talks to lift restrictions on Russian exports to China.
he said negotiations are under way to supply Russian pork to China, in addition to negotiations between the two countries' authorized organizations to lift import bans and restrictions on food products.
that Russian pork can play an important role in the Chinese market.
Russian companies can supply 30-350,000 tons of pork a year to the Chinese market, worth $1 billion.
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