中国将向俄罗斯租用西伯利亚农业用地

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BBC Chinese, June 19, 2015
www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp/china/2015/06/150619_china_siberia_land

, which is translated from

Chinese Firm to Rent Russian Land in Siberia for Crops. BBC, June 19, 2015/
www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33196396
(Huae Sinban 华俄兴邦投资公司; Trans-Baikal governor Konstantin Ilkovsky 俄罗斯外贝加尔州的州长康斯坦丁·伊尔科夫斯基)

Note:
(a) The translation is faith, so you need read one: translation or the original.
(b) The Tass report is written in Russian, not English.
(c) Transbaikal
en.wikipedia.org/?title=Transbaikal
(a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal; is currently divided into {Republic of] Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai)


(2) The only English-language report I can find that is published by Russian government is

Hong Kong-Sized Plot of Russian Land Leased to Chinese Agrofirm. RT [for Russia Today], June 16, 2015
rt.com/business/267442-china-russia-leasehold-land/
(The lease payments will be a nominal 250 rubles (less than $5) per hectare per year; "Zoje Resources Investment 中捷资源 was founded in 1994. Its main asset is Zoje Sewing Machine company 中捷缝纫机股份公司 [中国唯一一家民营缝纫机上市公司]")

Quote: "to lease 115,000 hectares (1,150 sq kilometers), of them 65,000 hectares of wasteland and 50,000 hectares of pastures * * * the lands to be developed by the Chinese have been out of agriculture for about 20-30 years - since the collapse of the Soviet Union - so bringing them back into proper condition will imply hard work