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A delegation of the Chinese business circles will visit Belarus on December 22-24, BelTA learnt from the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The CITIC Group (China International Trust and Investment Corporation) is interested in financing the investment projects of the Horizont Company, BelTA learnt in the Belarusian company.

Belarus and China have signed the intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in peaceful uses of atomic energy. The document was signed by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to China Anatoly Tozik and Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of China Cao Jianlin in Beijing on December 16, BelTA learnt in the Chinese Embassy in Belarus.

BelAZ and Chinese state company CATIC Supply intend to produce quarry equipment in China jointly, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian Industry Ministry.

  The possibility to introduce Minsk-Beijing direct flight was discussed by Minister of Sport and Tourism of Belarus Alexander Grigorov and representatives of the Chinese travel agency CITIC in Minsk on December 9, BelTA has learnt.

“If at least 50 Chinese tourists come to Belarus every week, we can consider opening a direct flight between Beijing and Minsk,” Alexander Grigorov said.

A joint Belarus-China enterprise on production of mushrooms will be created in Belarus, told BELTA Tamara Yanchevskaya, the head of department for mineral nutrition optimization and photosynthesis at the Institute of Experimental Botany named after V.F. Kuprevich of the National Academy of Sciences.

  Belarus and China are planning to make an experiment of using national currencies in the interbank payments. It is highly important for the development of the bilateral trade and economic cooperation. This intent of the central banks of the two countries was approved at the tenth session of the Belarusian-Chinese intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation in Beijing on December 2. The Belarusian delegation was headed by Chairman of the State Control Committee Zenon Lomat, the Chinese delegation by Vice Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China Fu Ziying, BelTA learnt from the Embassy of Belarus in China.

  Belarus and the People’s Republic of China are planning to discuss the bilateral trade, economic and investment cooperation including the process of implementation of large joint investment projects, setting up of joint ventures and banking cooperation. These issues will be considered at the 10th session of the Belarusian-Chinese commission for trade and economic cooperation in Beijing December 1-5, BelTA learnt from the Foreign Ministry of Belarus.

The Belarusian scientific institutions and universities signed $1.7 million worth of contracts with Chinese companies and scientific centers at the Chinese International Industrial Fair (CIIF 2008) that took place in Shanghai in November, BelTA learnt from Tamara Serkova, head of the international sci-tech cooperation department of the State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus.

Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno will supply pilot batches of heat-resisting materials to China, representatives of the company told BelTA.