At the invitation of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, China’s Minister of Transport Liu Wei attended the first meeting of the subcommittee on Arctic shipping routes cooperation with subcommittee’s Russian Chairman Alexey Likhachev, who is also the director general of Rosatom. Likhachev emphasized that “Rosatom is willing to deepen cooperation with the Chinese Ministry of Transport in various fields such as Arctic shipping, safety, and polar shipbuilding technology, and actively promote China-Russia Arctic shipping routes cooperation to new highs,” according to Global Times.