In Harbin (PRC), Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev met with executives of Chinese companies operating in international trade, investment, energy, and high-tech manufacturing.
Yury Trutnev meets with CEOs of several Chinese companies
Yury Trutnev meets with CEOs of several Chinese companies
Yury Trutnev meets with CEOs of several Chinese companies
The sides discussed prospects for implementing joint Russian-Chinese projects under a new preferential regime, specifically, an international priority development territory at the Zapadnaya site in the Primorye Territory, the Rovnoye site in the Amur Region and on Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island in the Khabarovsk Territory. Joint projects include the establishment of an industrial park, the construction of a production and logistics complex, the manufacturing of local power-generating facilities in the Russian Far East, and the production of drones for agriculture, emergency rescue operations, urban security and other sectors.
”With the participation of Chinese capital, 94 investment projects with a total investment volume exceeding 1 trillion roubles are already being implemented in priority development territories and the Free Port of Vladivostok. The Russian Government has created a new preferential framework on the Far East, specifically, the international priority development territory. To a large extent, it was designed in cooperation with our Chinese colleagues and is called on to become a comfortable regime for Chinese companies. Three locations have already been identified where we plan to establish an international priority development territory. We will continue to build transport corridors connecting our countries. Two international transport bridges have already appeared on the map: the Nizhneleninskoye–Tongjiang railway bridge and the Blagoveshchensk–Heihe road bridge. And these are not the last transport corridors. We also plan to expand cooperation in energy and agriculture,” Yury Trutnev said.
It is worth noting that prospects for implementing projects with the participation of Chinese capital within the framework of the international priority development area and technology exchanges were discussed earlier on the sidelines of the sixth meeting of the Russia-China Intergovernmental Commission for Cooperation and Development of the Russian Far East and Northeast China. The meeting was co-chaired by Yury Trutnev and Chair of the Chinese side of the Commission, Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Zhang Guoqing. Measures to intensify cooperation between Russian and Chinese businesses were also included in the agenda of the third meeting of the Business Council of the Russian Far East and Northeast China.
