China creates a giant dairy farm for deliveries of products to the Russian market

In the Chinese city of Mudanjiang, the construction of the Chinese-Russian livestock agricultural complex began. The project cost is 1 billion yuan (more than 8 billion rubles), Interfax said.

About the creation of the "Sino-Russian demonstration park in agriculture" was told by the chairman of the Association of the applied economy of the province of Heilongjiang Zhang Chunjiao. According to her, the milk produced by the agricultural complex will be intended for the Russian market.

In Mudanjiang, it is planned to dilute up to 100 thousand dairy cows. Feed for them will be grown on an area of ​​100 thousand hectares both in China and in Russia. The construction of the megaphafer is carried out by Zhongding Dairy Farming (PRC) with the participation of the Russian company "North But".

Earlier in Russia, a discussion was caused by plans to rent a plot of land in Transbaikalia for rent to Chinese investors. The reason was the preliminary agreement of the Government of the Trans -Baikal Territory and the Chinese company Hua'e Xingbang on the transfer of the latter for 49 years of unused agricultural purposes by the border with China.

The area of ​​the site exceeds 100 thousand square kilometers, and the amount of the transaction should amount to 24 billion rubles, recalls Inopressa . The transaction indicates a “deeply rooted distrust”, which undermines the partnership of the two countries, wrote on this subject the Financial Times .

When it became known about the impending transaction, several Russian politicians demanded it to cancel it. According to the Vice Speaker of the State Duma, a member of the LDPR Igor Lebedev, "they will bring crowds of Chinese there, and then, after 20-30 years, the Chinese government will demand to transfer this territory to China because all these Chinese live there."

Opponents of the transaction are also afraid that if Chinese investors begin to import products grown in Siberia to Russia, Russian agriculture will suffer.

In support of the disputed transaction, not only the governor of the Trans -Baikal Territory Konstantin Ilkovsky spoke out, but also the head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov. In the June interview with Financial Times, he said: "If a Chinese investor wants to cultivate a virgin soil 200 km from the border and grow vegetables there - let him grow."

According to the publication, the population of five Russian regions that border with China is 5.4 million people, while 63 million live in neighboring Chinese provinces. Since Russia needs to “replenish the deficit of capital caused by Western sanctions,” the country “is forced to do more and more concessions to Chinese investors,” the article says.

Later, the Minister of Affairs of the Far East denied an agreement with China to rent land. According to Alexander Galushka, the government did not sign any agreements.

In response to the sanctions of the United States, the EU and a number of other countries, Russia in August 2014 introduced a grocery embargo to the products of the agro -industrial sector. In particular, milk and dairy products were banned. The exception is made for lactic milk.

Russian counter -sanctions were extended for the year of June 24, 2015. In particular, the government has included lactic milk and cheeses in the list of products, the import of which is prohibited in response to sanctions against Russia.

The city district (city with adjacent rural territories) is located in the southeastern part of the Heilongjiang province and borders on the Primorsky Territory of Russia.