Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang on Friday called for enhanced high-quality energy cooperation with Russia at the 20th meeting of the China-Russia Energy Cooperation Committee.
Ding, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when co-chairing the meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak in Beijing.
Under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of the two countries, bilateral energy cooperation has formed an all-round, wide-ranging and high-level cooperation pattern, creating a model of equal and mutually beneficial practical cooperation between China and Russia, Ding said.
China is ready to work with Russia to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, build a high-level energy cooperation partnership, continuously enhance the resilience of the energy industrial and supply chains, promote high-quality development of energy cooperation with Russia, and promote the development of China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in a new era, he said.