# Power of Siberia begins pipeline gas deliveries to China Date: 2019 ## The fact On 2 December 2019 Gazprom and CNPC started pipeline gas through Power of Siberia, with [Putin](/people/vladimir-putin) and [Xi Jinping](/people/env-person-xi-jinping) attending a video ceremony. ## Context The contract had been signed in 2014. Construction ran through eastern Siberia. Putin attended; Xi attended; Gazprom dispatched. He did not weld the pipe. Eastward diversification is a price-and-geography instrument, not a European cutoff — that later halt is a different row. The 2022 Nord Stream 1 halt is a different date and direction. The 4 February 2022 Putin–Xi statement is a neighbouring diplomatic text. The president of the Russian Federation is commander-in-chief and can issue decrees, sign statutes the Federal Assembly has passed, and represent the state abroad. He does not write UN General Assembly resolutions, ICC warrants, or European Council conclusions. ## Evidence and sources President of Russia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is energy security (for the buyer) and [fossil-fuel dependence](/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence) (mixed): a completed long-term pipeline is a supply instrument. It does not rebate a later European cutoff. ## What is established and what is not Established: a 2 December 2019 start of Power of Siberia deliveries, with both presidents at the ceremony. Not established: a unique later Chinese household-price coefficient, or that European 2022 shortages were this pipe. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Gazprom dispatched. CNPC received. Xi attended for China.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Power of Siberia begins pipeline gas deliveries to China, not a later speech about Power of Siberia begins pipeline gas deliveries to China. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Power of Siberia begins pipeline gas deliveries to China on 2019-12-02 is not a licence to treat every later President of Russia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Power of Siberia begins pipeline gas deliveries to China into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He attended and politically owned the start. Gazprom dispatched. CNPC received. Xi attended for China. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Vladimir Putin: https://factrail.ai/people/vladimir-putin - Xi Jinping: https://factrail.ai/people/xi-jinping ## Drivers - Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-china-gas-idUSKBN1Y60EU - https://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/62218 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-power-of-siberia-2019