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Belarus plans to construct 34 energy facilities with the help of Chinese loans, according to Council of Ministers’ resolution No 1210 of 18 August 2010.

Belarus expects the Chinese Commerce Ministry to provide more active aid in finding partners for implementing projects in Belarus, said Chairman of the State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus Igor Voitov as he met with a deputy general manager of the Export-Import Bank of China.

Belarus is holding negotiations with the Export-Import Bank of China on venture capital investing, Anatoly Grishanovich, Director of the Belarusian Innovation Fund, said in a session on implementing and financing venture projects at the State Science and Technology Committee on 24 August.

Bellegprom Concern and the China Textile Engineering Society (CTES) have signed a memorandum of agreement, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian company.

The Belarusian Railways and the Austrian company Far East Land Bridge Ltd. are developing a new logistics scheme to transport Belarusian potash fertilizers to China on the main Trans-Siberian railway, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Railways press service.

In January-June Belarus’ export of goods and services to China increased 2.8 times to reach $267 million, BelTA learnt from the National Statistics committee.

The national exposition of Belarus and the World EXPO 2010 in Shanghai has been attended by more than 3 million people, Deputy Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Belinterexpo Director Yuri Lositsky told media.

OAO FanDOK has received the first consignment of the Chinese equipment to the amount of over $2 mln. to launch the production of thin particleboard slabs, said the Deputy Economic Director of the enterprise Tatyana Khinevich.

Belarus expects to get a Chinese loan to develop the infrastructure of National Airport Minsk, Vadim Melnik, Director of the Aviation Department of the Transport and Communication Ministry of Belarus, told media on 3 August.

Gomselmash has designed a new self-propelled corncob harvester. The machine will be tested in China in September-October, BelTA learnt from First Deputy Director General of the company Ivan Proturo.

Smolevichi Broiler Poultry Factory will export chicken paws to China. Such rather unusual order has been accepted by the enterprise. Moreover, China intends to purchase large consignments of chicken paws, Piotr Shagov, the General Director of the factory told.

Big industrial enterprises of China’s Shandong Province are interested in doing business in Belarus, Vice Governor of Shandong Province Li Zhaoqian told reporters in Minsk as he visited the National Academy of Sciences on 2 August, BelTA has learnt.

Belarus is interested in using Chinese innovative technologies to create new high-tech enterprises in Belarus, Igor Voitov, Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, told a session of the working commission for scientific and technical cooperation between Belarus and the Chinese province of Shandong on 2 August.

The construction of two traffic interchanges will begin in Minsk this year. The general contractor is the Chinese corporation Beijing Uni-Construction Group, BelTA learned from representatives of the state-run road construction and repairs enterprise Gorremavtodor.

Chinese banks may enter Belarus’ banking system in a year or two, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Piotr Prokopovich told media on 29 July.

The Belarusian Railway is studying an opportunity to launch its own representation in China, the head of BZhD (Belarusian Railway) Anatoly Sivak told reporters on July, 29.

The fourth sitting of the working committee on scientific and technological cooperation between Belarus and Shandong Province (China) will be held in Minsk on August 2nd, BelTA learnt from the press-service of the State Committee for Science and Technology of Belarus.

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.