Trade with Russia 'needs shot in arm'

Ambassador: More efforts needed to reach target of $200b by 2020

BEIJING - China-Russia trade increased this year, but the rate of growth was not high enough to realize the two nations' target of boosting bilateral trade to $200 billion by 2020, said Russia's ambassador to China.

China's trade with Russia, is expected to reach $78 billion, far less than that with Europe and the United States, Ambassador Sergey Razov said on Thursday.