Military and technical cooperation is one of many other spheres of cooperation between Russia and China and it fully reflects the high level of partnership for strategic cooperation and the level of mutual trust between our two countries. Lately military and technical cooperation has shown significant results and it is constantly developing. Chinese-Russian military and technical cooperation is consistent with the national interests of both sides and based on the principle of mutual benefit, it is not aimed against any third side, it is promoting regional stability and development and it is a guarantee of international strategic balance and peace in the world. China sets high priority to the cooperation with Russia in this sphere and will work together with the Russian side to advance military and technical cooperation to a higher level and greater scale.

Lately China and Russia as important strategic partners in oil and gas industry have been gaining new great results in bilateral cooperation. Cooperation in energy sphere including oil and gas has always been a very important, productive and broad field of business cooperation between China and Russia. Russia has become one of the key suppliers of oil and gas to China and China in its turn is an important market for the Russian oil and gas. China’s energy market has a great potential and a growing demand. The sides will maintain the spirit of equality and mutual benefit, working together on the large strategic projects which could play a key role in constantly deepening complex cooperation in exploration and mining of traditional energy sources, their refining and selling ready-made goods in order to reach complementarity of benefits for our two countries and a common advantage.

China and Russia are the largest neighbours and partners in terms of comprehensive strategic cooperation. Trade and economic cooperation of our countries is an important part of bilateral relations. Last year the trade volume was more than 140 bln dollars, but the trade and economic cooperation has not reached its limit for growth and has a great potential and wide prospects. The sides work on reaching the goal set by the leaders of the two countries for increasing the trade volume upto 200 bln dollars by 2024. Transactions in national currencies have been conducted between China and Russia for many years already. And the share of yuan in trade transactions has increased from 3,1% in 2014 upto 17,5% in 2020.

National currencies of our countries have been gradually strengthening their positions as a means of payment at the same time effectively reducing the exchange risks and cutting the costs of exchange differencies for the companies. National currencies transactions have evident advantages in bilateral trade operations between China and Russia, so the demand from the companies for such transactions is growing steadily.

Nowadays sanctions from the USA and other Western countries against Russia have indeed caused some difficulties for the Chinese-Russian trade cooperation. In this situation we need to actively contact and coordinate in order to eliminate difficulties in trade and logistics which arose as a result of sanctions. China will support further expansion of national currencies transactions in the trade between our countries, in investment and credit financing. We will continue to fully deploy the capabilities of infrastructure organizations and financial institutions from both countries including clearing bank for operations in Chinese yuan on the territory of the Russian Federation in order to provide sustainable development of bilateral trade.

China and Russia never declared that they refused dollar or euro transactions in bilateral trade, whereas national currencies transactions and other methods of payment are useful additional means in the system of bilateral trade operations. The sides will use pragmatic, flexible and versatile forms of cooperation in trade relations in the future in accordance with the real life requirements of trade in the two countries.

Lately the constant optimization of economic structure and architecture of regional development of China as well as broad reforms and openness policy have led to incredible results and stable positive dynamics of Chinese economic development, which strongly supports internationalization of yuan. According to the Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserve data published by the International Monetary Fund in the 4th quarter of 2021 the share of yuan in the world foreign exchange reserves has reached a highest ever level of 2,79%. It is worth mentioning that the exchange rate of yuan is gaining risk tolerance. Despite the risks connected with pandemic and geopolitical conflicts yuan maintained basic stability in a rational and balanced range which not only stabilized financial markets but also increased the financial attractiveness of yuan.

China endorses that Russian people use yuan and choose yuan to keep their savings in accordance with their practical needs. China UnionPay is acknowledged and has been working in Russia for many years already and therefore it is used by Russian card holders more often.  As for the promotion and usage of national payment systems Mir and China UnionPay in both countries it will be negotiated by central banks of the two sides during consultations.

Building a long-range wide-body aircraft CR929 is one of the most important projects of our two countries. Nowadays the sides have already reached consensus on the main questions such as investments, project design and division of labour in research and technological development, joint experiments and research advance in a smooth and stable way.

High tech trade between China and Russia is constantly progressing in accordance with the market laws and demand.  Our experience has proved that China and Russia have great prospects and pontential for cooperation in scientific and technical innovations. In 2020 and 2021 Chinese-Russian years of scientific, technical and innovation cooperation had great outcomes. Bilateral cooperation in science and technology is developing in accordance with the scientific and technology innovations at the same time it is progressing independently without other factors interference. The sides will continue to promote cooperation in this sphere applying a win-win scenario.

During many years of work on the Russian market the companies Great Wall, Chery and other Chinese automobile producers have launched a number of popular models basing on the exact analysis of the market and demand, which demonstrated great market results. In fact, Russian customers are in great favour of Great Wall Haval and other popular models.

Chinese automobile industry has been developing really fast lately. Chinese cars are of high quality, have reasonable quality-to-price ratio and a wide choice of models, and in some factors have already overcome their foreign competitors. Chinese automobile companies will continue to supply the Russian market in accordance with its peculiarities and demands, will strive to increase the production and trade volume. I am sure that thanks to the independent compelete production line, scientific research potential, industrial capacities, high quality of the product and increasing influence of the brands Chinese cars will be increasing their share on the Russian market and be even more popular among Russian customers.