China Oil & Gas Piping Network Corporation (PipeChina) has started building the southern portion of the 5,111-km China-Russia East natural gas pipeline, as a Chinese extension of the Power of Siberia gas transmission project delivering Russian gas to China. The southern portion begins at Yongqing in the northern province of Hebei and ends at Shanghai in eastern China. The China-Russia natural gas pipeline, which will have a capacity of 18.9 bcm/year, is expected to be launched in 2025. In July 2019, China began to build a 1,110 km gas pipeline section to the project between Changling and Yongqing (in the Hebei province), which is expected to be completed in October 2020.
In December 2019, Russia officially started to supply gas to China through the 3,000 km-long Power of Siberia gas pipeline project. As agreed in 2014, Russia will deliver 38 bcm/year of gas to China over a 30-year period using the Power of Siberia pipeline. Gazprom will deliver gas from the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia (and from the Kovyktinskoye field located in the Irkutsk region as of early 2023) to Blagoveshchensk, at the Russian border with China, and to Changling in the Jilin province of China.
In May 2020, Gazprom initiated a feasibility study for its new gas pipeline project in Eastern Siberia, the 50 bcm/year Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline project, which will connect Russia to western China via Mongolia.