Chinese, Russian journalists complete Beijing-Moscow road trip

 MOSCOW, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Media representatives from both China and Russia on Monday successfully completed their 28-day driving tour from Beijing to Moscow.

The motorcade departed from Beijing, capital city of China, on June 5 and had driven some 12,000 km to Russian capital Moscow via Chinese cities including Harbin and Manzhouli and Russian cities like Irkutsk, Novosibirsk and Kazan.

Two correspondents from China's Xinhua news agency participated in the event.

Yuria Kozlova, a 23-year-old Muscovite from the Voice of Russia, told Xinhua that she took part in the event in the hopes of seeing these Russian cities in her own eyes.

Supported by China National Tourism Administration and the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism, the driving tour project was carried out as part of the "Tourism Year of Russia" in China in 2012.

According to the reciprocal "Tourism Years" project, the " Tourism Year of China" is expected to be launched in Russia in 2013.

Tourism cooperation between China and Russia has been proceeding¹ smoothly². According to China's National Tourism Administration, China and Russia exchanged more than 3.3 million tourists in 2011.

1 proceeding   

n.行动，进行，(pl.)会议录，学报

参考例句：

• This train is now proceeding from Paris to London.这次列车从巴黎开往伦敦。
• The work is proceeding briskly.工作很有生气地进展着。

2 smoothly   

adv.平滑地，顺利地，流利地，流畅地

参考例句：

• The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
• Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。