Russia-China bilateral trade has exceeded US$200 billion for three consecutive years, with China remaining vital for Russia’s economy. Key exports for Russia are oil and gas, while China sends cars, electronics, and industrial components, with both nations deepening strategic cooperation and substantial joint infrastructure projects and connectivity despite global pressures. The trade mix however is changing as Russia looks to access markets deeper into the country and its significant Central and Southern populations.
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As readers will be well aware from reports elsewhere, the United States, in conjunction with Israel, has attacked Iran. We will make some initial observations, but generally speaking will not be focusing on this conflict (as is also the case with Ukraine) for the following reasons: We can however make some initial observations as regards […]
Russia’s AGR Holding and China’s Defetoo are expanding their joint venture and completing the technical refurbishment of the former United States-owned GM Motors auto plant in Shushary, St. Petersburg. The equipment has already been installed at the plant and will shortly begin the full production cycle. AGR acquired the GM facility in 2024, where the […]
Russia’s Altai Republic has sent a first shipment of almost 2,000 tonnes of flour to Hong Kong, the regional branch of the Federal Agricultural Product Safety and Quality Center has said. Experts from the Center’s Altai branch determined the organoleptic indicators, quality characteristics, and physical and chemical properties of the product. In addition, the customer […]
The relaunch of railway transport along the Skovorodino-Reynovo railway line is scheduled for 2026, according to Alexey Mestnikov, the Deputy General Director for Strategic Development of Yakutia Railways. This railway line leads to the Dzhalinda mixed checkpoint on the border with China and was mothballed in the early 2000s due to low freight traffic. Now […]
Russia retained its position as the main supplier of crabs to the Chinese market in 2025, the Russian Fisheries Association (VARPE) has stated. Last year, Russia’s share in China’s crab imports in physical terms grew to 34.2% from 31.2% in 2024 and to 59.3% from 58.4% in value terms, VARPE said, citing Chinese customs statistics. […]
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Monday (February 16) is Lunar New Year’s Eve and is the traditional day for families throughout Asia to come together, have a huge dinner, and wait for midnight to welcome in the beginning of a New Year. Because a year of twelve lunar months is 11 days shorter than a solar year (which determines the […]
Russia’s seaborne crude shipments to China hit a record 1.86 million barrels per day (bpd) in January, up 46% year-on-year amid falling Indian imports and rising US pressure on New Delhi to curb Russian oil purchases. Aleksandr Daniltsev, Director of the Trade Policy Institute at the Moscow National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), […]
Russia’s FESCO Transportation Group has sent container trains from Kurgan, in the southern Russian Urals, to Tianjin, on the northeast China coast, for the first time, according to a company statement. Two trains carrying cereal crops headed to Tianjin via Kazakhstan and the Altynkol-Khorgos border crossing. Each train consists of 62 forty-foot containers. Total transport […]
China has begun deliveries of bonded cargo from the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area to Russia by road for the first time under the TIR international transport system. This allows for a significant simplification of cargo transport between two countries. Under this system, the cargo is sealed at the starting point of the route and […]
Brazil and China have outlined the formation of a Trans-Pacific corridor, and Russia is joining it. The Ministry of Railway Transport of Brazil, the Ministry of Transport of China, and the China State Railway Group signed an agreement in Brasilia on the further development of the Brazil-Peru-Pacific Ocean-China railway-sea corridor in 2025-2028, providing for the […]
Russia’s Tuva Republic has been examining the viability of the proposed Kyzyl-Kuragino railway line project, which would link Tuva with Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Russian railway network, with calculations as to how much freight such a route would attract via access to China and Mongolia. The railway is estimated at 412 kilometres in length and […]
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