Wen Jiabao Meets With Putin; Energy Cooperation Becomes A Top Priority

Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council held a small meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Great Hall of the People on November 11, and co chaired the 16th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers. The two prime ministers exchanged candid and in-depth views on bilateral relations and the regional and international situation, and listened to the regular meeting committee of the Chinese and Russian prime ministers energy The work report of the three cooperation mechanisms, namely, the negotiation and the China Russia People to People Cooperation Committee, has deployed and guided the cooperation between the two sides in the next stage.

Wen Jiabao said that this year《 China and Russia The 10th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Good Neighbourly Friendship and Cooperation and the 15th anniversary of the establishment of China Russia strategic partnership of coordination. History has proved that the comprehensive and continuous deepening of China Russia relations has provided a strong impetus for promoting the development and revitalization of the two countries, maintaining world peace and stability, and promoting the establishment of a just and reasonable new international order. Facing the new situation, new opportunities and new challenges, the Chinese government is willing to work with the Russian government to adhere to the correct direction of equality, mutual trust, mutual support, common prosperity and friendship for generations, carry out higher level and larger scale cooperation and coordination at the bilateral, regional and international levels, safeguard common interests and promote new progress in bilateral relations.

Wen Jiabao said that over the past year, the sub committees of the China Russia Prime Ministers' Meeting mechanism have played a coordinating role and actively implemented the consensus reached at the 15th Prime Ministers' Meeting, which has been fruitful. On this basis, the two sides should, in accordance with the strategic development plan for the next 10 years of bilateral relations, take more practical and effective measures, innovate cooperation methods, expand cooperation areas, negotiate and solve major issues, and strive to create a new situation of mutual benefit and win-win results. First, improve the trade structure and environment between China and Russia, improve the quality of trade, and make unremitting efforts to achieve bilateral trade volume of 100 billion US dollars in 2015 and 200 billion US dollars in 2020. We will increase policy and financial support for two-way investment and encourage investment expansion. Second, continue to promote cooperation in the fields of oil, natural gas, nuclear energy, coal, electricity, water conservancy and environmental protection. The two sides should proceed from a strategic and long-term perspective, accommodate each other's concerns, and implement major agreed projects. Third, make new breakthroughs in high-tech cooperation, focus on promoting joint R&D and innovation, and transform more scientific research achievements into advanced technologies and products. Fourth, actively implement and improve the Outline of Cooperation between Northeast China and the Russian Far East and East Siberia, do a good job in cross-border infrastructure construction, strengthen communication and coordination, and promote common development and prosperity in border areas. Fifth, we should formulate an action plan for China Russia people to people and cultural cooperation in the next decade, promote the institutionalization of youth exchanges, strengthen education and training cooperation, and take the opportunity of holding a tourism year mutually to raise people to people and cultural exchanges between the two countries to a new level. Sixth, strengthen cooperation between the two sides within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and jointly promote the development of the SCO.

Putin agreed with Wen Jiabao's positive comments on the work of the regular meeting mechanism between Chinese and Russian prime ministers and his important views on further developing bilateral relations, saying that with the joint efforts of both sides, Russia China relations have continued to develop, and the cooperation between the two countries in various fields has reached an unprecedented height, safeguarding common interests, benefiting the two peoples, and promoting world peace Stability and prosperity played an important role. Russia attaches great importance to its relations with China and believes that bilateral cooperation has broad prospects and great significance. It is willing to strengthen strategic communication and coordination with China, give full play to the role of bilateral mechanisms and the respective advantages of the two countries, actively and pragmatically promote exchanges and cooperation in economy and trade, energy, science and technology, agriculture, environmental protection, people to people and cultural exchanges, expand the scale of cooperation, improve the level of cooperation, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results And common development to push Russia China strategic partnership of coordination to a new level.

The two prime ministers signed the Joint Communiqu é of the Sixteenth Regular Meeting of Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers, witnessed the signing of bilateral cooperation documents, and jointly met with journalists. Prior to the meeting, Wen Jiabao held a welcoming ceremony for Putin.

The Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers regularly met with Wang Qishan, the Chinese chairman of the Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, Liu Yandong, the Chinese chairman and State Councilor of the China Russia Committee for People to People and Cultural Cooperation, and Russian Vice Premiers Zhukov and Sechin, among others, to participate in the above activities.