New pipeline to boost energy diversification

China is expected to import 30 million metric tons of crude oil from Russia annually starting from next year through two transmission pipelines between the two countries, in the latest step to guarantee China's energy diversification.

Construction of the infrastructure for the major line of China's second Sino-Russian crude oil transmission pipeline will be completed by the end of this month, said Hu Weijun, chief engineer of Jiagedaqi section of the project.

Repeated tests will be conducted for two months until the pipeline goes into service at the beginning of next year, he said.