5. Agricultural cooperation surges

Agricultural cooperation has become the new point of growth of bilateral trade between the two countries since last year as more agricultural products are accessible in each other's country. China is Russia's largest food exporter while Russia's agricultural export to China increased 4.1 percent year-on-year during the first half of 2017.

A Russian man buys agricultural products in a Chinese-Russian trade area in Luobei county, Heilongjiang province, on June 25, 2017. [Photo/IC]

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