Ambassador: Belarus-China trade turnover reached $3.72bn in five months of 2023
In January-May 2023, the trade turnover between Belarus and China reached $3.72bn – as informed by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Belarus, Xie Xiaoyong, during an opening ceremony of the Exhibition of Chinese Goods and Services 2023 at the Great Stone Industrial Park. More than a hundred leading Belarusian and Chinese companies presented their products on an area of 10,000 square metres at the China Merchants Trade and Exhibition Centre.
According to the diplomat, over the past few years, trade and economic co-operation between the two countries has withstood the severe test of the COVID-19 pandemic and a number of external negative factors. Nevertheless, the volume of bilateral trade has repeatedly reached new highs, demonstrating strong stability and great potential. By the end of 2022, the trade turnover between Belarus and China reached $5.8bn, increasing 33 percent year-on-year. At the same time, China's imports from Belarus increased by 65.4 percent.
“These are impressive results, but we are even more impressed by the 2023 figures. From January to May 2023, the trade turnover between our countries reached $3.72bn. China has become the second largest trading partner of Belarus, and Belarus, in turn, is an important trading partner of China in the Eurasian region,” Xie Xiaoyong said.
The diplomat added that, in recent years, Chinese-Belarusian co-operation in various fields has been intensifying. It has already achieved fruitful results under the strategic leadership and personal care of the presidents of China and Belarus, Xi Jinping and Aleksandr Lukashenko.
“Last September, the Chinese and Belarusian leaders held a historic meeting in Samarkand. They jointly decided to raise Chinese-Belarusian relations to the level of all-weather and comprehensive strategic partnership. Aleksandr Lukashenko recently made a successful state visit to China, where he met with Xi Jinping. In a joint statement issued following the meeting, the heads of state stressed the need to further strengthen Chinese-Belarusian liaisons in various fields, including the economy and trade, investment and innovation, and also to give a new impetus to further development of the bilateral relations and open up excellent prospects,” Xie Xiaoyong noted.
According to him, an increasing number of Chinese enterprises prefer to invest in Belarus. The diplomat stressed that a large number of major projects that benefit the peoples of the two countries have flourished on the Belarusian land, “Chinese enterprises and projects of Chinese-Belarusian co-operation can be seen in every region of Belarus. Against the background of such favourable political relations and excellent indicators of trade and economic liaisons, an exhibition of Chinese goods and services is being held in the Chinese-Belarusian Great Stone Industrial Park. The event has gathered many large state-owned enterprises.”
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