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May 6thCrashwarpedThe Ministry of Commerce held a press conference on the eighth China-Russia Expo.

A reporter from the Daily Economic News noted that the eighth China-Russia Expo will be held from May 16 to 21 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, one month earlier than in the past, which is also one of the activities celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Russia this year.

The Sino-Russian Expo is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, the people's Government of Heilongjiang Province, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, and is held in turn in China and Russia. Since the first session was held in 2014, it has been successfully held for seven times.

Over the past 10 years, a total of more than 7200 Chinese and Russian enterprises and more than 1.05 million businessmen have participated, signing a total of 446.8 billion yuan, involving infrastructure, machinery and equipment, agricultural products processing, automobile and other fields, forming a number of influential and exemplary significanceCrashwarpedThe results of the cooperation.

Photo source: each reporter Zhang Huishui took photos of more than 120 Chinese and foreign delegations from 44 countries and regions to attend the conference.

The reporter learned that the total exhibition area of this Expo is 38.Crashwarped.8,000 square meters. During the same period, a series of national, inter-local and various fields supporting activities will be held around local cooperation, economic and trade investment, science and technology education, cross-border e-commerce, cultural tourism and youth exchanges.

The Expo has solicited more than 40 thematic supporting activities in industrial docking, investment promotion, international cooperation, tourism consumption and other fields.

It is expected that more than 120 Chinese and foreign delegations from 44 countries and regions will attend the meeting, more than 5000 registered international and professional businessmen from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and more than 2000 responsible persons of various market entities will attend the meeting and discuss cooperation.

Chen Shijun, president of the Heilongjiang Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Sino-Russian Expo. from a summary of the situation, on the basis of the characteristic advantages such as high-level, large-scale, and wide coverage that have been formed in previous expos, pragmatic cooperation has become more prominent, specifically reflected in the following three aspects:

First, to build a cooperation platform to serve various fields of negotiation and docking. Focus on building a cooperation and exchange platform based on promotion, negotiation, docking and signing. During this Expo, more than 100 product launches, new product introductions and live broadcasts of the first show will be held. It is expected that more than 200 projects will be signed at nearly 20 special signing ceremonies, and more than half of the total number of supporting activities will be discussed. More than 10 pre-docking sessions have been opened between the main guest province and the main guest city, Chinese and foreign friendly provinces and states, and counterpart cooperation provinces and cities.

The second is to focus on the theme of the exhibition and promote all-round cooperation and exchanges. Focus on the theme of "cooperation, mutual trust and opportunities", focus on displaying cooperation results in characteristic commodities, humanities and arts, youth exchanges, green food, etc., and promote cooperation opportunities in cross-border e-commerce, mutual trade, cultural tourism, new consumption and new retail. The Sino-Russian Food Carnival will invite nearly 200 food enterprises to bring hundreds of gourmet products for evaluation, and a large number of professional purchasers, suppliers and dealers will be invited to discuss cooperation. Harbin Grand Theater, Harbin Concert Hall and various theatres will hold 40 international cultural exchange performances.

The third is to enhance service experience and implement systematic service guarantee. Apply information technology, intelligent services, biometrics, artificial intelligence and other technologies to exhibition services, venue services, security services, and other aspects, and strive to create digital, intelligent and ecological exhibitions.

The bilateral trade volume reached 240.1 billion US dollars in 2023.

In recent years, Sino-Russian bilateral relations have been continuously deepened. what is the overall situation of Sino-Russian economic and trade cooperation?

Liu Xuesong, director of the Eurasian Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in recent years, bilateral economic and trade cooperation has overcome the complex external environment and shown vigor and vitality.

First, the scale of trade continues to expand. In 2023, the bilateral trade volume reached US $240.1 billion, reaching the trade target of US $200 billion ahead of schedule. In the first quarter of this year, the bilateral trade volume was 56.68 billion US dollars, an increase of 5.2 percent over the same period last year, and continued to maintain a good momentum of development. The trade structure continues to improve, and cooperation in emerging areas such as trade in services and cross-border e-commerce has a strong momentum.

Second, key projects have been implemented steadily. The crude oil pipeline and the natural gas pipeline of the eastern route between China and Russia are operating smoothly, the overloading volume of the Heihe Highway Bridge and Tongjiang Railway Bridge continues to increase, the cooperation projects between the two sides in energy, aviation, aerospace and other fields have been steadily advanced, and the breadth and depth of cooperation have been continuously expanded. quality and level are constantly improving.

Third, exchanges between localities and industries are getting closer and closer. At present, local cooperation between the two countries is booming, exchanges at all levels and industries are becoming increasingly frequent, and the willingness of enterprises to cooperate is high, showing a positive trend of "going in both directions", constantly injecting new impetus into bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Taking this Expo as an example, in addition to Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shandong and other traditional provinces of cooperation with Russia, southeast coastal provinces such as Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu also actively participated, and the geographical scope of Russia's participating states expanded from the far East to the central and western regions of Russia. It is hoped that through this Expo, local exchanges and cooperation between the two countries will be further strengthened so as to add new strength to the sustainable development of China's economic and trade cooperation.Crashwarped?

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