2016年CRI Agricultural cooperation becomes highlight in China-Russia ties

 

Dongning Huaxin is a conglomerate¹ based in northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang.

The company set up an agricultural joint² venture with Russian partners in the southeastern Russian province of Primorskiy Kray in 2004, aiming to create an integrated project which include plantation³, farming, processing and warehouse⁴ services.

Over the years, the project has secured investment of more than 100 million US dollars.

The money in return has given birth to an agricultural park covering an area of 68-thousand hectares.

Li Demin, chairman of Dongning Huaxin, says the business has gained recognition in Russia.

"As we run the business, we attach great importance to the support and recognition from the Russian side. Over the past 10 years or so, we have not only invested money and provided agricultural training programs for local staff, but have also organized nonprofit social events. We visit war veterans on Russia's annual World War II V-day on May 9th. We have also delivered food to schools and kindergartens in remote places."

Dongning Huaxin's agricultural investment is not an isolated⁵ case.

Data from the provincial⁶ authorities of Heilongjiang show the province alone has around 120 enterprises that are currently investing in agricultural programs in Russia.

These programs are located in at least 5 provincial regions across the Russian Far East.

Russia is looking to revitalize its agricultural sector⁷ as the country learns the lesson of economic sanctions imposed by the US and the European Union over the past few years.

Boris Titov, co-chairman of the Russian-Chinese Committee of Friendship, Peace and Development, says cooperation with China is a fast track to realize the goal, as the agricultural industries of the two countries are complementary.

"The pollution-free agricultural products from Russia have very good sales in China. China is currently one of the world's major food importers. More and more Russian agricultural goods are entering the Chinese market while at the same time, many Chinese companies have come to Russia to invest in our agricultural sector."

At the moment, 30-per cent of Russian exports to China are contributed by agriculture.

A bilateral⁸ agricultural investment fund involving 2 billion US dollars was set up last year following a deal between Chinese authorities and Russia's state investment fund.

But Russian Deputy Agriculture Minister Sergey Levin says much more remains⁹ to be done.

"First of all, we need to lower the thresholds to make it earlier for agricultural products to enter each others markets. In detail, that would mean meat and grain products from Russia coming to China, and fruit and vegetables from China coming to Russia. Secondly¹⁰, cooperation on the investment front. Third, cooperation in agricultural technology, equipment as well as personnel training. Fourth, the infrastructure¹¹, as it is a precondition to promoting the trade in agricultural goods."

Official data show so far this year, agricultural trade between China and Russia grew by around 7 percent year on year.

For CRI, this is Ding Heng.

1 conglomerate   

n.综合商社，多元化集团公司

参考例句：

• The firm has been taken over by an American conglomerate.该公司已被美国一企业集团接管。
• An American conglomerate holds a major share in the company.一家美国的大联合企业持有该公司的大部分股份。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 plantation   

n.种植园，大农场

参考例句：

• His father-in-law is a plantation manager.他岳父是个种植园经营者。
• The plantation owner has possessed himself of a vast piece of land.这个种植园主把大片土地占为己有。

4 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

5 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

6 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

7 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

8 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

9 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

10 secondly   

adv.第二，其次

参考例句：

• Secondly,use your own head and present your point of view.第二，动脑筋提出自己的见解。
• Secondly it is necessary to define the applied load.其次，需要确定所作用的载荷。

11 infrastructure   

n.下部构造，下部组织，基础结构，基础设施

参考例句：

• We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
• We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。