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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, May 19 (Xinhua) — A demand and supply conference under the China-Russia inter-municipal cooperation was held Sunday in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province.
The event was organized by the provincial government of Heihe City and was attended by more than 200 representatives from chambers of commerce, industry associations and enterprises from both sides, according to news website Chinadaily.com.
The conference focused on cross-border industrial cooperation and interregional economic interaction.
The border city of Heihe, which is separated by the Heilongjiang River (Amur) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in Russia’s Amur Region, has achieved fruitful results in foreign trade and humanitarian contacts in recent years. Its mayor Qin Bo called on domestic and Russian entrepreneurs at a conference to invest in Heihe’s economy and jointly develop the city’s priority sectors, such as cross-border trade, tourism, etc.
Calling the conference a platform for enhancing cooperation between cities and enterprises in China and Russia, Xing Yingna, deputy head of the Heilongjiang Provincial Commerce Department, expressed hope that the business communities of China and Russia will contribute to ensuring the economic prosperity of the two countries. -0-