NO. There is a huge difference. First comes freshness. The 'Chinese pine nuts' sold in grocery stores are never really fresh: they spend weeks traveling by railroad in China (in questionable sanitary conditions), then at least two months crossing the Pacific on a ship, and months more in the U.S. before they get onto grocery store shelves. In transit, they are not refrigerated for extended periods of time, which brings quality down and necessitates treatment with chemicals to keep the nuts from going rancid. In comparison, our cedar nuts bearing "The Ringing Cedars of Russia" brand are quickly processed, chemicals-free, and shipped directly from Siberia by air to North America, and are refrigerated in clean, sanitary conditions. Second comes fairness and concern for Nature and human rights. The 'Chinese pine nuts' or the ones sold in grocery stores are for the most part cedar nuts harvested in Russia, then smuggled through the Russian-Chinese border, processed in China using slave and child labor and then shipped to the U.S. (90% of pine nuts imported into this country come this way). In contrast, our cedar nuts are fair trade: harvested in Siberia by local communities, purchased through small-scale local buyers, locally processed and shipped directly from Siberia to North America by air. Finally, the 'Chinese pine nuts' are usually a blend of Siberian cedar nuts and Korean pine nuts, the latter being of lower nutritional and medicinal value. In contrast, our cedar nuts are 100% pure Siberian cedar nuts (from Siberian cedar trees, Pinus sibirica).