Chinese Foreign Minister on Friday stressed China's readiness to continuously promote the strategic partnership with Russia during 2008.

The fifth APEC SME (small and medium enterprises) Technology Conference and Fair will launch in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao, Shandong Province, on May 30, a senior economic planner said here on Tuesday.

Russian energy giant Gazprom plans to supply about 90 million metric tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) annually to world markets by 2030, a senior company official said on Tuesday.

With the beginning of the fishery in the Astrakhan region there has been restarted the work of the "Putina-2008" fishery headquarters.