China plans to supply Russia with fruits and vegetables. Shandong's 10% output value can meet the needs of Russia as a whole.

The staff of a logistics center in the Russian-Chinese border area are distributing fruits and vegetables from China (Russian TV Today website)

Russia's Izvestia reported on September 26 that China is prepared to fully meet Russia's demand for fruits and fruits, according to an article entitled "China is ready to supply fruits and vegetables to Russia" on September 24. Chinese merchants are also interested in buying Russian food and honey. This is what an official from the Department of Commerce of Shandong Province of China told this newspaper. It is reported that China and Russia plan to hold a series of negotiations on mutually beneficial trade in food and organic agricultural products in October.

Shandong is one of the most developed agricultural provinces in China, the article said. The annual agricultural output value of Shandong province is 141 billion US dollars (about 5.4 trillion rubles), while the agricultural output value of Russia is about 3.5 trillion rubles. At present, the trade volume of agricultural products between Russia and China is about 20 billion US dollars.

Officials from the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce said that the province's vegetables available for export are carrots, ginger, garlic, persimmon peppers, peas, zucchini, pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers and broccoli, as well as peaches, pears, grapefruit and watermelons. In October, senior Chinese and Russian leaders are preparing to discuss the terms of mutually beneficial trade.

Yakov Liubovitsky, president of the Russian Organic Agriculture Association, said that as a major green food production province in China, Shandong currently exports more agricultural products to Japan than other provinces, and Japan has the strictest requirements on food quality in the world.

Liubovitsky said that the size of the Russian market for green agricultural products is about 150 billion rubles and will reach 300 billion rubles by 2020. So far, the West has dominated the market. If we shift from the West to China, as long as 10% of Shandong's agricultural output value can immediately meet Russia's national demand for organic agricultural products.

China has said it can provide Russia with all the necessary food, but its quality is disturbing, but Russian experts believe that, according to an article entitled "China's embrace" on the website of Russia's "arguments and facts" on September 25, China can produce and provide food of the same quality as Europe.

Anna Liuboweitskaya, outreach director of the Russian Organic Agriculture Association, said, "China can actually produce high-quality organic products according to the strictest Japanese quality standards in the world and export them to Japan." The quality of this product is not inferior to that of European products. "

Anna added: "Organic products entering Russia with European quality inspection certificates are often produced in Turkey, Romania and the Baltic countries, and even Europeans question their quality. China has both high-quality products and low-quality goods, the former for countries that strictly monitor quality, and the latter for countries that lack regulatory mechanisms. "

Vakulenko, an analyst at Finham Consulting, said: "imported food from China is more attractive to consumers in terms of price," the article said. Because of the sharp depreciation of the rouble against the dollar and the euro, Chinese goods can be more attractive than European food if they are settled in the currencies of Russia and China. But I don't think the price will be much lower because the price of Chinese food will be linked to the market. " He said that it is not easy for European goods to regain their former position in the future, trade ties have to be restored, and consumers have more choices.