Gagarina first welcomed all and said the Moscow Kremlin Museums have maintained a good cooperative tradition with the Shanghai Museum. The Faberge Jewelry Exhibition and The Armoury Treasury of the Russian Sovereign, hosted by the Moscow Kremlin Museums in 2012 and 2015, respectively at the Shanghai Museum, drew large crowds of Chinese visitors.

The cultural relics on display for this exhibition are from the most prosperous dynasty in Chinese history – the Ming Dynasty. They will give Russian people a chance to learn about the exquisiteness and richness of Chinese culture in that era, Gagarina added.

In Golodets' speech, she said the China-Russia Committee on Humanitarian Cooperation played a constructive role in the cultural exchanges and cooperation between the two countries and has held more than 300 activities to date. The Moscow Kremlin Museums' 2015 exhibition held at the Shanghai Museum attracted about 650,000 culturally-minded Chinese museum-goers.

"This exhibition is a reciprocal one that we have looked forward to for a long time and I believe it will become a new highlight of the China-Russia cultural exchanges," she said.