Official says deals with Chinese firms at $5.5 bln at EEF

KHABAROVSK, Sep 8 (PRIME) -- Russian firms signed deals worth U.S. $5.5 billion with Chinese companies at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), Deputy Prime Minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev said on Friday.

“The combined volume of agreements with Chinese companies at the forum amounted to $5.5 billion. This is the biggest volume of investments from our foreign colleagues,” he said.

A total of 217 agreements worth around 2.5 trillion rubles have been signed at the forum, Trutnev said on Thursday.

(57.1411 rubles – U.S. $1)

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