Siberia is extremely chilly in comparison with substantial land Russia, it has outstanding organic materials and oil. The southern coast of Siberia (South East) have excellent sort of wood for paper. For this reason most valuable to Russia and the republics because of expansion of industries and trade that has led to greater exploitation of the natural resources
Siberia has rich mineral resources including at least diamonds , coal, oil and gas and is situated very close to the Chinese market as it rtakes only 4 days at sea from a Siberian port to a Chinese port compared to 35 days from Brazil. Also, China is interested to have pipelines built from Siberia to China to access some of its' energy resources.
