At the invitation of Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, premier Li Keqiang of the State Council of China paid an official visit to Russia on September 16, 2019. During visit, they hosted the 24th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian prime ministers in St. Petersburg.
Two sides agreed to continue to deepen pragmatic cooperation in civil aviation, automobile manufacturing, pharmaceutical, mining, non-ferrous metals, petrochemical, chemical, iron energy equipment, shipbuilding, Marine engineering, machine tools, robotics and radio electronics industry, and further actively promote joint development of long-range wide-body jet and heavy choppers.
They stressed that China-Russia energy cooperation is strategic and long-term and would like to continue to consolidate and develop bilateral strategic energy partnership. To achieve the common interests, they reached consensus as follows:
— to deepen all-round and integrated cooperation in oil, gas, electricity, coal, nuclear power and renewable energy.
— to promote bilateral cooperation in energy technology, standards, human resources and information.
— to support the launching ceremony of China-Russia eastern natural gas pipeline project within this year.
— to implement the nuclear cooperation package agreed on June 8, 2018. In line with the principle of mutual benefit, to explore feasible cooperation projects, promoting the cooperation in a third-country nuclear market.
