![China to become Russia’s biggest gas consumer if western route developed China to become Russia’s biggest gas consumer if western route developed](https://mtic.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/putin-4.si_-310x168.jpg)
China could replace Germany as Russia’s biggest gas consumer, if Moscow and Beijing agree to add a route from Russia’s Western Siberia to the one already agreed under a $400 billion contract, President Putin said at a meeting with media in St. Petersburg.