in a variety of areas, new large-scale projects are being launched, reporting from beijing konstantin ponishkinchinese press today writes about the upcoming state visit of vladimir putin, the first foreign trip after his re-election to the prc, just like sidin pina did to russia a year ago, and then exactly 10 days after taking office. on the eve of his state visit to our country, the president of the people's republic of china wrote an article for readers of a russian newspaper. now, a year later, the russian president gave an interview to the biggest one. talking one -on-one, the next day they took part in a rich and meaningful official program, namely an unprecedentedly high the level of strategic partnership between our countries also determined my choice of china as the first state that i will visit after officially taking office as president of the russian federation. in many ways, it is putin’s personal friendship. relations between russia and china are at their highest level of all time. over the past 5 years , the countries have managed to double mutual trade turnover to nearly $230 bi