Putin announced his desire to show the Moscow metro to Xi Jinping

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he would like to show him the work of the Moscow metro. About informed “Interfax” with reference to the words of the president.

“We will meet with the President of the People’s Republic of China, if the program allows, we will be happy to show our guests too, in any case, I think it will be possible to show the delegations,” Putin said after the opening of the Big Circle Line (BCL) of the Moscow metro.

March 1 Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin launched BKL metro, which connects 34 districts of Moscow at a distance of the city, where 3.3 million people live. Putin noted that the length of the line has become the world’s largest underground metro ring, “overtaking our friends in China.” As part of the line, 9 new stations were opened – Maryina Roshcha, Rizhskaya, Sokolniki, Tekstilshchiki, Pechatniki, Nagatinsky Zaton, Klenovy Boulevard, Kashirskaya and Varshavskaya.

The construction of the first section of the BCL has been underway since 2011. Sobyanin announced the completion of the construction of the last section of the line at the end of December 2022. In early February, the mayor invited Putin to the opening ceremony of the new line and added that the BCL is “the largest highway in the world among all the circle metro lines “.

In late February, Wang Yi, head of the office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, visited Moscow, where he met with Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. At the meetings, issues of cooperation between Russia and China and the upcoming meeting between the Russian leader and the President of the People’s Republic of China were discussed. Then Putin asked to convey his best wishes to the chairman, naming his friend.