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China, Russia to deepen subnational cooperation

Moscow, May 22 (UNI) China and Russia have pledged closer exchanges and cooperation in various fields at the subnational level through two major mechanisms with fresh impetus.
On Tuesday, Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attended a chairpersons' meeting in Moscow of the China-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Cooperation and Development of Northeast China and the Far East and Baikal Region of Russia, together with Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev.
On Wednesday in Kazan, Zhang attended the fifth meeting of the council of cooperation between the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River and the Volga Federal District, together with Igor Komarov, the Russian presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District.
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