China vows to enhance trade with Eurasian bloc

Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng said China and Russia have reached broad consensus on Eurasian economic integration.

China has agreed to launch talks with the Eurasian Economic Union on an economic and trade cooperation deal, as well as on the "docking" of China's Silk Road Economic Belt initiative.

On Friday, when Gao met the economic union's Trade Minister Andrey Slepnev in Moscow, he vowed to enhance business ties between China and the bloc.