HOHHOT, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Every day long queues of trucks loaded with Russian wheat flour, rapeseed and other farm produce can be seen waiting to deliver goods to China on the Russian side of China's land checkpoint of Manzhouli. The largest land border city between China and Russia handles 60 percent of the bilateral trade via land transport.
Ambassador: Bilateral cooperation to pick up steam in major projects and emerging areas President Xi Jinping left Beijing Wednesday for a state visit to Russia as Beijing and Moscow seek to build even stronger ties amid the changing international landscape. Atop his agenda, Xi will have talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow.
BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- There's a lot to be done to realize the true potential of Sino-Russian economic relations, but the dynamic remains positive, China Daily reported Wednesday. Russia has vowed to "harmonize" the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative with its own economic integration project, the Eurasian Economic Union, and has offered its own vision of a Grand Eurasian Partnership, Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, was cited by the newspaper as saying.
BEIJING, June 5 (Xinhua) -- "For a big ship, a big voyage," Xi Jinping said, quoting a Russian proverb during his first visit to Russia as president of China in 2013. He was calling for concerted efforts by China and Russia to build their relationship into a vessel big and strong enough to cleave its way through the changeable sea of international situation.
