China has earned the reputation of being the second economy in the world. The country has shown impressive economic growth over the past decades and is expanding its influence by investing trillions of dollars around the world

China, being the world’s leading economy, is already today Russia’s largest trading partner. Complementarity of the countries’ economies, the common border, large-scale transport projects, cooperation in key sectors, participation in BRICS and SCO — these and other factors serve as major drivers for all existing and new bilateral initiatives. The potential of these relationships is to a large extent determined by their content and current trends.