The Russian Oriental Economic Forum has hotly discussed "Turn to the East"

Under the background of the West continuously strengthening the sanctions against Russia, the Seventh Eastern Economic Forum in Russia held in Vladivostok was listed "to the East" as an important topic. This year, Southeast Asian countries have sent groups to participate in the Eastern Economic Forum and signed a series of agreements to strengthen cooperation in various fields such as economy, trade and energy with Russia.

On September 7, when the Russian President Putin met with the Chairman of the Myanmar National Management Commission during the Oriental Economic Forum, he said: "Our relationship is actively developing, and the current trade amount is not large, but the trend is very good. "Demo." Mintanglai said that Myanmar began to buy Russian oil products and will get the first batch of supply a few days later. In addition, Myanmar intends to pay Russia's oil products with rubles.

On the 6th, the "Russian-ASEAN" business dialogue was held during the Oriental Economic Forum. According to the Russian "Newspaper" website, the president of the Russian Federal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Sergei Carterlin, said at the meeting that as of the end of 2021, the trade volume of Russia and ASEAN countries increased by 27.5%to $ 20 billion. In the future, there is still a lot of room for development between Russia and ASEAN, and the two parties need to solve the problem of transportation. In addition, Russia and related countries can reach an agreement with their national currency settlement trade. The "World" bank card issued by Russia will be greatly facilitated to settle the trade settlement in the ASEAN member states.

Alexander Shaoxin, the head of the Russian Industrialist and Entrepreneurs Alliance, said: "More than half of ASEAN exports are high -value -added machinery and technical products. Because of Russia's traditional partners because of restrictions on Russian sanctions, we need to be new. Parts and material suppliers. "Alexeis Kuraping, the head of the Russian Energy Department, said at the meeting that another important area of ​​Russia and ASEAN is energy transformation technology cooperation, including liquefied natural gas technology, hydrogen energy development cooperation cooperation , Clean coal.

On the same day, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Agricultural Ministry of Agriculture, Sheri Levin, said at the Oriental Economic Forum "Russia-Vietnam" business dialogue that Russia intends to expand the supply of food for Vietnam first is wheat and increase meat products and sunflower seeds Oil's export share in the local market. In addition, fish and seafood are the trade between the two parties. He said that due to the restrictions on the epidemic of new crown pneumonia, Russia is currently actively promoting the diversification of the sales market of fish products. In 2021, the trade volume of Russia and Vietnam increased by 6%.

Thailand also sent delegations to participate in the Oriental Economic Forum. On the 6th, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov met with Thailand Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Donba Muwa. Last year, Russia and Thailand's bilateral trade increased by 28.9%to $ 2.29 billion. Russia's main export products are metal, machinery, equipment and vehicles, chemistry, pulp and paper industry products, mineral products, wood products. Russia imports various industrial products, textiles, clothing, shoes and gems from Thailand.

Energy cooperation has always been a key area for Russia's cooperation with ASEAN. The Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations of Myanmar Investment and Foreign Economic Relations said at the "Russian-ASEAN" business dialogue meeting that Russia is the main supplier of Energy Resources and agricultural industrial products in ASEAN countries. Myanmar will purchase energy such as LNG from Russia and expand the investment of Russian oil and natural gas in the country.

The Minister of Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic Development, Chekinkov, previously said that Japan and other "unfriendly countries" are unwilling to sign energy contracts with Russia. The 600 million population is equivalent to 5 Japan. All these countries are willing to cooperate with us. "Xie Miaopov, director of the International Cooperation Department of the Russian Ministry of Energy, said that Russia and ASEAN countries will expand in the field of natural gas and low -carbon technology. Cooperation.

At present, ASEAN is one of the most active economies in the world. A brief report of the ASEAN Economic Integration in 2022 released in July shows that the economic growth rate of ASEAN will reach 4.9%and 5.2%in 2022 and 2023, respectively. As of 2021, the total amount of GDP of the ASEAN economy is about US $ 3 trillion. If regional economy statistics, ASEAN is second only to the United States, China, the European Union, and Japan.

"'Stepping to the East' has happened." Russia's high -level banker of the Russian foreign economic banking, Shelgi Stolchak, said in the Eastern Economic Forum: "'Turn to East' to open up new markets for Russia and expand expanded And deepen the existing market. "

However, only ASEAN cannot completely resolve the challenges facing the Russian economy. Zhang Hong, a researcher at the Eastern European and Central Asian Institutes of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on the 7th, analyzed the Global Times reporter that first of all, the economic pillar of the ASEAN countries and Russia's industries are not high. Imported high value -added products, and the export products of ASEAN countries are mainly primary processing products, which is difficult to meet the Russian market demand. Secondly, compared with the European and American markets, the total economic volume of ASEAN countries is lower.

According to Japan Economic News, Russia is expanding trade with major emerging countries. In addition to export categories such as crude oil, home appliances, machinery, food and other imports have been added. With the reduction of sanctions on Russia and the United States and Europe, emerging countries have partially replaced. Judging from the exports of Russia released in July released by various emerging countries, China ’s largest trade target country China increased by more than 20 % year -on -year, Turkey increased by 75 %, and Brazil increased by 46 %. ▲

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