China raises Jan-June oil purchases from top exporter Russia by 15%

BEIJING, Sep 6 (PRIME) -- Russia is still the top exporter of oil to China, which raised imports of Russian crude by 15% on the year to 37.7 million tonnes in January–June, Han Zheng, vice premier of China’s State Council, told Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak on Friday.

“Bilateral energy trade have been steadily growing for a long time. Our countries are reliable and stable long-term partners for each other in this sphere…Russia has been maintaining leadership in the sales of electric power to China for many years, and Russia has been keeping the first place among crude exporters for the past three years and the fourth place in coal exports to China,” he said.

“In the first half of this year, China imported 37.7 million tonnes of crude from Russia, which is a 15% growth, 16.5 million tonnes of coal, up 25%, and we plan to import 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours of power from Russia.”

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