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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, December 26 /Xinhua/ — China is now, by all measures, a priority destination for the development of Russian exports. Alexey Solodov, Vice President of the Russian Export Center (REC), told a Xinhua correspondent.
"This is an objective reality. The Chinese market is the most important for us right now, given the size of the People's Republic of China's population, its vast territory, and, most importantly, the history of relations between Russia and China, our cultural ties, which haven't been established for a long time. China is undoubtedly a priority for us now, by all accounts," he said.
As A. Solodov explained, the Russian Export Center (REC), together with its partners, has been building and developing multi-level, deep cooperation with China for several years now. As a result, Russian exports to China are steadily increasing. According to the REC, in the first nine months of this year, the volume of non-resource, non-energy exports from Russia to China increased by 18 percent compared to the same period last year.
A. Solodov noted that 36 online stores selling Russian products under the national brand "Made in Russia" are already operating on 11 of China's largest e-commerce platforms. As for offline stores, including retail stores in China, there are currently 249 of them. By early next year, this number is expected to exceed 300.
According to the Vice President of the Russian Export Center, the national brand "Made in Russia" has already become a "fundamental bridge" between high-quality Russian products and Chinese consumers. "To strengthen this bridge even further, this year we held three "Made in Russia" festivals and fairs in the cities of Shenyang (Liaoning Province), Harbin (Heilongjiang Province), and the capital of China, Beijing," he recalled, adding that a new feature this year was an online festival featuring a popular Chinese blogger.
Speaking about Russian goods supplied to China, A. Solodov emphasized that the range is very broad. In terms of food products, these include meat products, confectionery, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and cereals. Chinese stores also offer Russian light industry products, household goods, and household cleaning products. "Yes, of course, not all the brands we would like to see are present on the Chinese market. But we have our own mechanisms and infrastructure that allow us to expand the range of Russian goods in China," he noted.
The Vice President of the Russian Export Center reported that, to date, more than 2,000 Russian manufacturers have received the national "Made in Russia" certificate, of which only about 10 percent are already present in the Chinese market. "By the end of next year, we want to increase this percentage. We plan to significantly increase the presence of Russian products in the Chinese market through our infrastructure, which should also expand next year in both quantity and geographical coverage, so that all provinces and major cities of China have "Made in Russia" retail stores," A. Solodov shared his plans for 2026.
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