Chinese Ambassador to Russia: Russia's agricultural exports to China grew by 15.8% in the first three quarters of 2020

MOSCOW, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's ambassador to Russia, Zhang Hanxuan, said in an exclusive interview with the satellite news agency on the occasion of the 2021 New Year that bilateral cooperation between China and Russia in 2020 will inevitably be affected by the epidemic but will also bring new opportunities, with Russian agricultural exports to China increasing by 15.8% in the first three quarters.
Zhang Hanxuan recalled, "In 2020, in the face of the severe challenges posed to the world economy and the international situation by the outbreak of neo-crown pneumonia, China and Russia have always understood each other, supported each other and looked after each other, highlighting the speciality and high level of China-Russia comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in the new era."
bilateral cooperation between China and Russia will inevitably be affected by the epidemic, and the content and form of cooperation will face new environment and demand, but it will also bring new opportunities.
pace of cooperation between the two countries has not slowed down, but new progress has been made in many areas."
Zhang pointed out that although global trade has declined significantly, bilateral trade between China and Russia has shown great vitality, and China maintains Its position as Russia's largest trading partner, accounting for 17% of Russia's foreign trade.
the first three quarters of this year, Russian agricultural exports to China grew by 15.8%, China's direct investment in Russian non-financial services increased by 7.4%, and trade with Russia's Far East increased by 4.3%.
70 key projects identified by the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee, 17 projects have been put into operation, 26 projects are being implemented and 13 projects are being negotiated in business.
he added that the 2020-2021 China-Russia Year of Science and Technology Innovation, jointly announced by the two heads of state, will implement more than 1,000 cooperation projects, the longest list of cooperation between the two countries since the launch of the theme.
signed a road map for China-Russia scientific and technological innovation cooperation from 2020 to 2025, carried out cooperation on NICA's major scientific projects, and established the China-Russia Mathematics Center.
Cooperation between China and Russia in the areas of epidemic prevention and control, new coronavirus vaccine and drug research and development, as well as artificial intelligence, cloud economy, Internet of Things, big data and other outbreaks has been increasing.
zhang stressed that the Sino-Russian people-to-people exchanges have not been stalled by the impact of the epidemic, the two sides completed ahead of schedule the two heads of state on the two-way exchange of students to exceed the target of 100,000 people, the two cultural institutions have accumulated online exchange of experience, actively participate in each other's cloud art festival, cultural forum and other activities, is currently performed by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Grand Theatre Chamber Orchestra of the cloud Chinese New Year concert is actively planning.
2020, Russia exported $2.8 billion in agricultural products to China, up 24.1% year-on-year, according to Russian customs statistics.
russia's agricultural exports to China were $3.7 billion as of December 6, up 27% year-on-year, according to the latest data released by the Russian Ministry of Agriculture.
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