Russia’s economic progress to fuel cooperation with China

Russia’s policy of optimizing its economic structure will help to further economic and trade ties with China, a leading Russian expert said on Wednesday.

“Russia is determined to transfer its economic drive force from natural resources to innovation, which will increase its exports of high-tech products to China and tap cooperation potential in joint research and development,” Andrey Ostrofsky, deputy director of the Institute of Far East Studies of the Russian Academy of Science, told Xinhua in an interview.

Xinhua