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Putin arrives in China's 'Little Moscow' on second day of state visit - BBC News Putin arrives in China's 'Little Moscow' on second day of state visit - BBC News
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Fan Wang
Putin has now moved on to the Russia-China Expo where he has delivered the opening address. Live reporter
He said energy ties between the two countries will continue to grow, and that his country was ready to supply China with clean energy, according to Reuters news agency. Today Putin is visiting Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), one of China's top science and engineering universities.
Moscow is hoping for progress towards signing a deal on the “Power of Siberia 2” pipeline project which would supply China with Russian natural gas. It was first established in 1920 and at that time, all of its courses were taught in Russian and followed the Russian education model.
We'll bring you more lines from his speech as we get them. These days HIT is known as "China's MIT". It's also known as China's “cradle of engineers” and one of the country's "Seven Sons of National Defence" institutes for students who want to enter the defence industry.
It was sanctioned by the US government in 2020 and added to Washington's blacklist amid the US-China tech war.
On social media, many HIT students have expressed excitement about Putin's visit, though some are none too happy about the intensified security measures on campus.
"I want to go and see him but my building was put under lockdown," one student wrote on Xiaohongshu, an Instagram-like platform. "My lunch delivery order has just been rejected," another one said.
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