As many as 98 Belarusian enterprises are certified for shipping agricultural products to China.

Of them 56 enterprises are milk-processing ones. Aleksei Bogdanov, Head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, mentioned the figures during an expert meeting held on 26 October to discuss ways to export more quality agricultural products from the Eurasian Economic Union to China. The expert meeting was held as part of the online forum on conjugating the Eurasian Economic Union and China’s Belt and Road initiative, BelTA has learned.

Aleksei Bogdanov noted that China is one of the top three importers of Belarusian agricultural products. Active work to certify Belarusian processing enterprises for deliveries to China began in 2015. The work has helped increase export from $0.3 million in 2015 to $131 million in 2019. The top Belarusian exports to China are meat products (44% of the total in cost terms), dairy products (40%), flax fiber (6%), and rapeseed oil (6%).

Belarus successfully develops deliveries by rail, including within the framework of the Belt and Road initiative. Thanks to that Belarus delivered 11 container trainloads of dairy powder products to China in 2018-2019.