Earlier, the Kremlin said Russia-China trade topped the $200 billion mark ahead of the target date to reach a record $227.7 billion.
Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's First Asian Department Ivan Zhelokhovtsev earlier told Sputnik that Moscow expects higher levels of trade with China in 2024. He said that in 2023, Russia became the leader in terms of the growth rate of trade turnover among China's partners; China's trade dynamics with the United States and Japan dropped.