Russian expansion in China: After the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 2022) in Chinese social media, the popularity of the online store “Russian government pavilion” increased rapidly. The Chinese threw themselves at Russian goods (including candies and tea), and in three days they spent almost 6 million yuan (approx. 826 thousand dollars). Until April 2023, over 300 companies from Russia joined the Chinese e-commerce. Russian stores also operate stationary and offer, among others Russian vodka, biscuits and chocolate. – Honey is best sold. It's a real hit. And chocolate has no improvers and is clean – said the saleswoman of one of the stores in an interview with CNN. Over the past three years, it has registered in China 2.5 thousand new entities trading goods from Russia.
Chinese investigation: Internet users pointed out that some products sold in Russian stores do not come from Russia at all. At the beginning of 2025, the Russian embassy in China issued a message in which she warned consumers against fakes, which “often do not meet quality requirements and differ from similar products produced in Russia.” Then an investigation was initiated in China, which showed that seven out of 47 studied Russian stores It did not work with the support of the Russian embassy.
China-Russia trade: The value of trade between Russia and China was in 2024. $ 244.8 billion (against $ 240.1 billion a year earlier). Chinese exports to Russia reached $ 115.5 billion (an increase of 4.1 % year -on -year), and Russian exports to China amounted to $ 129.3 billion (unchanged).
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Sources: 163.com (1, 2),, weibo.com, CNN, The South China Morning Post