俄罗斯将在武汉设立总领馆

湖北日报讯 （记者江卉）昨从中国中部国际产能合作论坛获悉，俄罗斯将在武汉设立总领馆。这将是外国在汉设立的第5家总领馆。

2015年，中俄两国外交部交换了关于在中国武汉与俄罗斯喀山互设领馆的协议。省外侨办介绍，湖北与俄罗斯历史渊源深厚，17世纪俄罗斯旅行家首次将湖北茶叶带入欧洲，这是中俄万里茶道的最早缘起。近年来，我省积极融入国家一带一路战略，成为“长江—伏尔加”合作机制倡导者和主要推动者，努力拓展与俄罗斯在物流、农业、科技、人文等领域合作，成功促成俄罗斯总领馆落户武汉。

此前，我省已在俄设立“湖北俄罗斯工作站”“俄罗斯湖北商会”等常驻机构。湖北正牵头组织中国方面的“万里茶道”申遗工作，汉欧公司已在俄罗斯城市莫斯科和奥木斯克建立代表处，计划将运营网络逐步扩大至伏尔加河沿岸联邦区。

目前，法国、美国、韩国、英国已在武汉设立总领馆。

Russia to open consulategeneral in Wuhan

On June 5, the Forum on Global Production Capacity and Business Cooperation released news that Ruassia is scheduled to open consulate general in Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province. Once estab-lished, the Russian Consulate General will be the fifth foreign consulate general in the city. In 2015, an agreement on mutual establishment of consulate generals in Kazan and Wuhan was signed be-tween Foreign Ministries of China and Russia. In recent years, Hubei has been actively implementing China’s Belt and Road Initiative and became advocate and pri-mary enabler of "Yangtze River-Volga Federal District" cooperation mechanism. All the above efforts success-fully lead to the establishment of Russian Consulate General in Wuhan. It was introduced that Wuhan has so far homed to consulate generals of four countries as France, Ameri-ca, South Korea and UK.