Song noted that cooperation has moved beyond simple trade to joint R&D and production, expanding into digital economy, green energy, and high-tech sectors. Cross-border industrial and energy collaboration deepened, while provinces like East China"s Shandong and South China"s Guangdong add fresh impetus.

　　By now, over 20 Russian federal subjects have established friendly relations or signed cooperation agreements with provinces in southern China, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.

　　Going ahead, building cross-border industrial chains, including localized agricultural demonstration parks in Russia"s Far East; and accelerating new models such as the Heihe Aihui China-Russia Digital Economy and Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park to further integrate digital trade with the real economy could serve as new drivers in promoting the two countries" trade and investment to a new level, Song said.

　　"As Russia"s leading technology company, Yandex has always been committed to building an efficient and trusted bridge for collaboration between Chinese and Russian enterprises, supporting stronger and more effective economic cooperation between the two countries," Sergey Ustinov, General Manager of Russian company Yandex Ads Asia Pacific, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

　　Despite the sound momentum of China-Russia economic and trade ties, some Western media outlets are sensationalizing China-Russia trade relations.

　　"As China has reiterated, China"s normal trade with Russia is done aboveboard and cooperation between China and Russia does not target any third party, nor would it be influenced by any third party," Cui Heng, a scholar at the Shanghai-based China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation, told the Global Times on Wednesday.