China News Service, Moscow, December 17 (Reporter Wang Xiujun) The website of the Chinese Embassy in Russia published on the 16th an interview with the Russian "Izvestia", the Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui.
During the period, Zhang Hanhui mentioned that facing the severe challenges of the global spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the global economic downturn, China-Russia energy cooperation has shown strong resilience and vitality, energy trade has grown substantially, and major cooperation projects have been steadily advanced.
Zhang Hanhui said that China is a major energy consumer and importer in the world, with oil as the core power source and natural gas as the clean energy source of choice to replace coal. In the future, China will still account for a considerable proportion of China's energy consumption.
China is willing to actively promote cooperation on major strategic projects with Russia, carry out cooperation on small and medium-sized projects, and pragmatically promote cooperation in the fields of energy technology and equipment, innovative research and development, renewable energy, hydrogen energy, and energy storage, and use more local currencies to carry out energy trade settlement and projects Investment and Financing.
Zhang Hanhui said that as the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination enters a new era, the two countries have achieved fruitful results in cooperation in the field of scientific and technological innovation.
The two sides should take the 2020-2021 China-Russia Science and Technology Innovation Year as an opportunity to leverage their respective advantages to deepen cooperation in the fields of aviation, aerospace, atomic energy, high-energy physics, artificial intelligence, etc., to achieve joint research and development, benefit together, share products and markets, and break the Western blockade. Provide inexhaustible impetus for the scientific and technological progress and economic development of the two countries.
Zhang Hanhui responded to the question of “what other Chinese brands might meet with Russians in the future and the question when they are popular in Russia” said that in recent years, Chinese manufacturing has paid more attention to improving product quality, strengthening technological innovation and cultivating independent brands.
The comprehensive competitiveness and market share of Chinese products in the international arena are constantly increasing.
While well-known communication terminal brands such as Huawei and Xiaomi continue to serve the modernization of Russian communications, smartphone brands such as VIVO, OPPO, and Meizu; computer brands such as Lenovo, Shenzhou and Tsinghua Tongfang; TV brands such as Konka, Skyworth and Changhong and Haier Refrigerator brands such as, Midea and TCL are also more favored by Russian consumers.
Zhang Hanhui said that China's electromechanical products have strong market potential.
Harvard, Geely, BYD and other brands of cars will shine in the fields of new energy and environmental protection.
In addition, more high-quality clothing, bags, shoes and hats and other light industrial products, traditional Chinese medicine products, Chinese food and beverages will also appear in the daily lives of the Russian people.
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