Russian and Chinese presidents to discuss new initiatives in energy sector

New initiatives in the energy sector will be one of the topics of negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Russian leader’s visit to China, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said at the briefing, Report informs via TASS.

"The driving force of bilateral cooperation is energy. Last year, records for supplies of oil, pipeline gas, LNG and coal to China were again broken. Naturally, new initiatives in the energy field will be discussed at the negotiations," he said.

Ushakov recalled that the volume of Russian oil supplies to China increased by 14% to 101.6 billion tons, pipeline gas increased to 22.7 billion cubic meters, LNG supplies grew to 9.4 million tons, coal totaled 101.6 million tons.