"As for energy, this is one of the main areas of development of cooperation with China. [There is] a wide range of issues on cooperation, not only on the supply of energy resources, which are growing in large volumes and have grown significantly in 2022, and there is approximately 40% increase in 2023," Novak said at a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Russian business circles in Shanghai.
The most important thing, he added, is that Russia is working out issues with the partners in order to "jointly participate in the supply of the missing technological equipment."