(VOVworld) – Russia and China signed Monday more than 30 bi-lateral agreements on the occasion of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Russia and as part of the 19^th inter-governmental commission meeting in Moscow.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo: RIA)

Russian and Chinese state banks signed agreements worth 24.4 billion USD on currency exchanges and memorandums on anti-monopoly and preventing illegal transportation of nuclear and radioactive materials. Both sides also agreed on a project to provide China with natural gas through eastern pipelines. The project, dubbed “Siberia power,” is part of a May agreement between the Russian Gazprom gas corporation and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation.