On September 1 in Yakutsk, the capital city of Russia's Sakha Republic, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli attended the start-of-construction ceremony of the Russian part of the Eastern Route of the Russia-China gas pipeline, which the Russian side named "Siberia Power" pipeline. CNPC Vice President Wang Dongjin was present at the ceremony.

With a total length of 2,680km in Russia, the Eastern Route gas pipeline will enter China from Heihe in Heilongjiang Province, aiming at markets in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and northeast China. The pipeline will start to transmit natural gas to China from 2018 for a period of 30 years. In the first five years, annual gas delivery is expected to increase gradually from 5 billion to 30 billion cubic meters, and maintain at 38 billion cubic meters per year since the sixth year.

On the same day, Mr. Wang Dongjin and Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee Alexey Miller had a discussion on the implementation of the Eastern Route project and the initiation of the Western Route project.

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