Russian Satellite News Agency, Moscow, December 24. The Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said in an exclusive interview with the Satellite News Agency that China will become the number one country for exporting Russian meat products in 2020, and the cooperation between China and Russia in the market for meat products has achieved remarkable results. The two sides have a good development trend of cooperation in this field.

When answering questions about China’s import of Russian pork, Zhang Hanhui said that China and Russia open up each other’s markets for high-quality agricultural and sideline products and enrich the types of markets supplied by the two countries. This is mutually beneficial cooperation and is important to improving the well-being of the two peoples and deepening economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. significance.

He said, “In 2018 and 2020, China will open its markets to Russian frozen poultry and beef, and this year, China has become the number one exporter of Russian meat products. From January to October this year, China imported meat from Russia. Such products amounted to US$290 million, an increase of nearly five times year-on-year. It can be said that the mutual access cooperation between China and Russia in the meat product market has achieved remarkable results, reflecting the good development trend of cooperation between the two sides in this field.

The Chinese ambassador stated that pork is a meat product with high demand in the market. The mutual market access is highly concerned by related companies of both parties. As the African swine fever problem has not been effectively resolved, the development of this cooperation is currently facing objective difficulties. It is hoped that Russia will continue to strengthen prevention and control, strive to resolve the African swine fever problem as soon as possible, and create prerequisites for the restart of negotiations on mutual access to the pork market between the two sides.

Zhang Hanhui said that he noticed that the business community is highly concerned about the export of Russian pork to China. He said that the competent government departments of both sides have agreed to carry out technical exchanges and cooperation in the prevention and control of African swine fever, continue to maintain communication at the expert level, jointly respond to the challenge of the African swine fever epidemic, and work together to remove obstacles to the development of pork market access cooperation.

According to previous reports, Barsunayev, director of the Russian Export Center's representative office in China, said in an interview with the Satellite News Agency that Russia and China are negotiating to lift restrictions on Russian exports to China. He said that at present, in addition to negotiating the lifting of import bans and restrictions on food products, the two countries’ authorized organizations are also under negotiation on the supply of Russian pork to China. Barsunayev believes that Russian pork can occupy an important position in the Chinese market. Russian companies can provide 300-35 million tons of pork to the Chinese market each year, worth $1 billion. 

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