Workers inspect the pipeline equipments in Daqing, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Jan. 10, 2011. (Xinhua/File Photo)

China imported 1.36 million tons of crude oil from Russia in February alone via a crude oil pipeline between the two countries. As of Feb. 29, a total of 80.8 million tons of crude oil had been transported to China since the pipeline was put into operation in 2011, China News Service reported on Sunday. 

Construction of the 999-kilometer pipeline began in 2009 and took two years to complete. Some 927 kilometers of the pipeline lie in China while 72 kilometers lie in Russia.

The pipeline begins in the Russian town of Skovorodino in the far eastern Amur region and enters China in Mohe County before continuing to Daqing, a petrochemical hub in northeastern China.

Its designed maximum capacity is 30 million tons annually. The pipeline is a major channel for China's importation of oil and gas from Russia.

(Xinhua/File Photo)