China and Russia keen to strengthen ties

On Tuesday, China's Vice Premier Hu Chunhua co-chaired a video conference for the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission for Cooperation of Northeast China and the Far East and Baikal Region of Russia, together with Yury Trutnev, Russian's deputy prime minister and the presidential envoy to Russia's Far Eastern Federal District.

Hu said China hopes that the two sides can strengthen mutual support and cooperation in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, promote regional development strategies and industrial docking, and expand cooperation in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery, mineral development, oil and gas chemical industries, to achieve greater win-win results.

China is willing to work with Russia to further improve the cooperation committee mechanism and explore the "Northeast and Far East" cooperation mode, to inject new momentum into the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination between China and Russia in a new era.

Trutnev said that Russia attaches great importance to the development of Russia-China ties. The two countries have supported each other and cooperated in various fields, and continue to work together during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Russia is willing to work with China to further enhance infrastructure connectivity, tap the potential for agricultural trade and investment cooperation, and promote the "Northeast and Far East" cooperation to achieve more positive results, he said.

The two sides conducted in-depth exchanges on activities such as investment cooperation and production resumption, the access of agricultural products, port and cross-border infrastructure cooperation, and reached a number of cooperative deals during the meeting. Hu and Trutnev signed the minutes of meeting after the video conference concluded.