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From Xinhua News Agency via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link<\/a>):<\/p>\n

An official with Russia’s Natural Gas Export Company said on April 4 in Moscow<\/a> that his country will sign a governmental agreement late this year to kick off exports of natural gas to China, after a momerandum of understanding signed off by President Putin <\/a>during his visit to China earlier this year. <\/p>\n

Russia will export 60-80 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year to China through two pipelines, the company official said. According to the MOU signed by Putin, the first pipeline will be put in use by 2011 and cost $10 billion to build.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Xinhua News Agency via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): An official with Russia’s Natural Gas Export Company said on April 4 in Moscow that his country will sign a governmental agreement late this year to kick off exports of natural gas to China, after a momerandum of understanding signed off by President […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1167,2925,5934],"class_list":["post-6860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-natural-gas","tag-pipelines","tag-russia","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\nRussia to sign gas export agreement with China - Xinhua<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/04\/russia-to-sign-gas-export-agreement-with-china-xinhua\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia to sign gas export agreement with China - 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