Kremlin Chief of Staff notes increase in trade volume between China and Russia

BEIJING, March 25. /TASS/. Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov noted an increase in the volume of trade between Russia and China, despite the global economic environment. "The volume of Russian-Chinese trade, despite certain tactical setbacks, including energy supplies, does not diminish, but increases," Ivanov said at a meeting with the secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Wang Qishan. In turn, Wang Qishan said, "under the comprehensive deepening of relations between Russia and China, we have established a new mechanism of cooperation between the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Russian presidential administration." "We can say that this a kind of a new platform for cooperation and innovation in diplomatic terms," ​he added. Read more