According to the office for supervision of border crossing and quarantine of the city of Manzhouli, the aggregate value of imported ice cream was $863 thousand

The figure in the first eight months of this year increased more than 14 times in annual expression - on 1388%.

Earlier, the General Secretary of the Association for the development of enterprises abroad China Ho Janeway, speaking at a press conference, called the supply of Russian ice cream in China is one of the promising areas of cooperation between the two countries. He also spoke in support of placing the production of this Russian product in China.

China Daily notes that a special surge of interest in the Russian ice cream happened after Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the President of China, XI Jinping, a box of this delicacy during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hangzhou on 4 September.