Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Li Qiang will be in Belarus on an official visit on 22-23 August, the press service of the Belarusian government told BelTA.
Official negotiations with Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko are expected to take place. A package of agreements on economic affairs is supposed to be signed as a result of the talks.
The distinguished guest will also visit the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone. It is a special economic zone with a special legal regime. It is located 25km away from Minsk. The park’s priority development areas include mechanical engineering, electronics and telecommunications, biotechnologies, pharmaceutics, new materials, logistics, digital commerce, big data storage and processing.
Apart from that, Li Qiang is expected to lay a wreath at the Victory Monument in Minsk.
BelTA quoted Roman Golovchenko as saying on 14 August that Belarus and China consider the current stage of relations as very important. “Primarily because the new status of relations between our countries stipulated by the heads of state last year should be filled with new economic content by the governments. The Belarusian side and the Chinese one have prepared an impressive package of agreements and arrangements for signing. We believe that these documents will solidify plans of promising partnership between Belarus and China in key avenues of our cooperation. Those include economy, trade, industrial cooperation and technological cooperation, science, education, transport, digital development, green economy, and regional cooperation,” the prime minister of Belarus stressed.
“Belarus is particularly interested in signing a detailed plan on aligning the industrial policies of the two countries within the framework of the comprehensive strategy for joint industrial development during the upcoming visit of the premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. We believe that this plan should become a program document that will fill the new status of our relations – the status of all-weather and all-round strategic partnership – with concrete practical content,” the Belarusian head of government stated.
