第六届中国-俄罗斯博览会开幕

The Sixth China-Russia Expo opened Saturday in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, with a focus on promoting China-Russia cooperation at local levels.

 

第六届中国-俄罗斯博览会周六在黑龙江哈尔滨开幕，本次博览会着重于促进中俄的地方合作。

 

The five-day event has attracted more than 1,700 enterprises from 74 countries and regions, according to the organizing committee.

 

Wang Yingchun, head of the Heilongjiang provincial¹ council for the promotion² of international trade, said a total of 1,246 enterprises from China and 137 enterprises from Russia have signed up for the event.

 

Andrei Ostrovsky, deputy director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said on the sidelines of the expo that the event provided a platform for Chinese and Russian enterprises to deepen cooperation, and Russia's Siberia and Far East hoped to seize the opportunities brought by the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.

 

The China-Russia Expo has served as an important platform for bilateral³ economic and trade cooperation since it was first launched in Harbin in 2014. Last year, the expo was held in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

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