On August 31 at the \"Sino-Russian Trade\" news confer-ence， Sun Yongfu， DireCtor-General of the Department of European Affairs at the PRC Min-istry of Commerce， announced that， the problems regarding the collapse of 'Cherkizovsky' have not been funda-mentally solved. About 95% of Chinese products have been shipped out， while the remaining 5% were expected to be cleared out before the middle of Sep-tember. According to the China Gen-eral Chamber of Commerce in Russia， the case involves tens of thousands Chinese companies， and approximately 15，000 containers worth about US$5 billion.