On June 5, 2012, Hujintao, the Chinese President held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin who was on a state visit to China, leaders from the two countries signed a joint statement, and witnessed and signed a series of cooperation documents, which involving nuclear power, industrial, news, energy, investment, tourism, banking, insurance, electricity, and other fields. As in the past, in addition to exchange views of major international issues and improve political mutual trust problems when the tallest leadership meeting between the two countries, it is also an important content to strengthen the bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Some energy and industrial economic and trade cooperation are involving. According to the statistical investigation in previous years, the stone material that Russia import from China basically is granite and marble, we believe that it has strategic significance for China stone export to Russia, for the two leaders reaffirm energy cooperation this year.
Plate market in Russia always occupies a big share, and since 2002, the economy of Russia is very strong, the consumption of plate are tending to the advanced stone (especially the stone direct consumer), its main supplier of plate is China, India, Italy, Spain, Ukraine Finland Kazakhstan, Greece and Turkey. And the granite s are mostly from Ukraine, Finland, Kazakhstan, Italy, Spain, India, China; the marble s are mostly from Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain.
According to the introduction from the chief of international stone city: "there are 5 major categories for decorative stone market in Russia: big plate, specifications board (including sheet), flooring, tombstone (memorial) and building stone  The specifications plate sheet occupy the biggest share on the market, it’s about 40%; the second one is big plate and tombstone market, which accounted for twenty percent of all, while the building stone and  paver all accounted for about ten percent. Here we would like to mention the tombstone market in Russia. Due to the population of Russian is scarce, but the land resources are rich, so not only right now, but also in the future decades, the demand of tombstone will be very huge, which isn’t the same as Western Europe market, which has a good demand at the beginning, but because the resources of land is scarce, so the land price is quite expensive, then it crack down the demand to tombstone for the middle class of consumer."