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Belarus, Russia and China plan to build a high-speed railway between Minsk and Moscow, Head of Belarusian Railways Anatoly Sivak told a press conference on 29 July.

Companies of the Chinese Province of Heilongjiang are interested in supplies of dairy products and flax fibre from Vitebsk Oblast of Belarus. The agreements on the first supplies of the Vitebsk products to China have been reached during a visit of the Chinese businessmen to the Vitebsk Oblast, BelTA learned from Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Oleg Matskevich.

Belarus is interested in executing new joint sci-tech projects with China’s Guangdong Province, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technologies of Belarus Igor Voitov said at the opening of the Science and Technology Week of Guangdong Province in Minsk on 23 July, BelTA has learnt.

Belarus is in negotiations with China on the loan for the reconstruction of M5 Minsk-Gomel highway, Alexander Golovnev, the chief of the road maintenance office at the Belavtodor department of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Belarus, told a press conference.

Belarus and China are considering a possibility to set up new joint ventures producing machines and medicines, Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Alexander Tsyganov told reporters on 20 July, BelTA has learnt.

A major Hong Kong company is ready to invest in building a multimodal international transportation and logistics center at premises of the Orsha aircraft repairs plant, Pavel Bozhanov, Head of the Office for Strategic Development, Coordination and Investments of Transport Systems of the Belarusian Transport and Communication Ministry, told a press conference on 14 July.

The Vitebsk Oblast external trade with the People’s Republic of China upped 39% for the period of five months of the current year as compared to the similar period of the year before. The statement was voiced by the Head of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, Aleksandr Kosinets as he met the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the PRC to Belarus, Lu Guisheng on July 10th.

A Week of Science and Technology of the Chinese Province of Guangdong will be held in Minsk on 23-27 July (hereinafter – the Week). The event organizers from the Belarusian side are the Belarus State Committee for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, State Enterprise «Scientific and Technological Park at the Belarusian National Technical University «Polytechnic», from the Chinese side – the Guangdong Province Government, Union of International Scientific and Technological Cooperation of Chinese Province of Guangdong and CIS countries.

Belarus invites China to step up work on joint projects, Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky said as he met with Deputy Commerce Minister of China Gao Hucheng on 29 June, BelTA has learnt.

BelAZ has concluded a $33 million contract for the supply of dump trucks to China, BelTA learned from director general of the company Piotr Parkhomchik who took part in the work of the Belarusian-Chinese Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation.

The State Committee for Science and Technology (SCST) of Belarus is interested in sci-tech and education cooperation with the Chinese province of Hubei, SCST Chairman Igor Voitov said as he met with a delegation of the Hubei Province on 28 June.

Belarus will become a barrier-free zone for Chinese investments, Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus Zenon Lomat said in a session of the Belarusian-Chinese commission for trade and economic cooperation in Minsk on 28 June.

Belarus and China will implement 100 investment projects at the amount of $15 billion. These projects were discussed at a session of the Belarus-China Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation in Minsk on 28 June, BelTA has learnt.

Belarus proposes to set up Chinese industrial zones in the Belarusian free economic zones, Co-Chairman of the Belarus part of the Belarus-China Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation Zenon Lomat told reporters after the session of the commission in Minsk on 28 June, BelTA has learnt.

A facility for assembling Chinese cars may be built in Belarus, the chairman of the State Control Committee, Zenon Lomat, told reporters following the session of the Belarusian-Chinese commission for trade and economic cooperation.

Representatives of the Belarusian and Chinese railways will discuss the development of high-speed train service in Belarus, BelTA learned from the Belarus Railways press service.

In a session on cooperation with the People’s Republic of China on 25 June, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko urged to speed up the implementation of Chinese investment projects, BelTA has learnt.

A session of the Belarusian-Chinese Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation will be held in Minsk on 28 June, Andrei Savinykh, Head of the Information Office, Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, told a briefing on 24 June, BelTA has learnt.

The Chinese Midea Group and the Belarusian holding company Horizont intend to set up the biggest production facility in the CIS to produce household appliances, Yuri Predko, director general of the holding company Horizont, told reporters at the presentation of the Belarusian-Chinese joint venture in Minsk on 23 June, BelTA has learnt.

Chinese Midea Group and Belarus’ Horizont agreed to construct new plants to produce household appliances in Belarus, Horizont Deputy Director General for Technical Development Sergei Gunko told media in Minsk on 23 June.