The 3rd China-Belarus Industrial Park Coordination Working Group Meeting was held in Minsk of Belarus on January 30. Vice Supervisor of the Working Group from the Chinese side, Chinese Assistant Minister of Commerce Zhang Xiangchen and Supervisor of the Working Group from the Belarus side, Belarusian Deputy Director of the President’s General Office Nickolay Snopkov co-chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were relevant departments and business representatives from both sides.
The participants listened to the reports on the progress of the China-Belarus Industrial Park made by members of the working group from both sides, and agreed on specific arrangements concerning FDI attraction, infrastructure construction, and policy and capital support in accordance with recent work targets. The two sides agreed to promote the substantive launch of the industrial park in the first half of 2015 in line with an overall guideline of “promoting the work firmly and orderly, making responsibilities clear, working closely and substantially with regular inspection”. After the meeting, the two sides signed the minutes of meeting.
Before the meeting, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the Belarusian Ministry of Economy jointly held a roundtable meeting on China-Belarus investment cooperation and industrial park project matchmaking and policy matchmaking in Minsk. Attending were over 60 enterprises as well as responsible persons from the Belarusian Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Energy, the General Administration of Customs and the Administration of Investment and Privatization who answered questions relating to market access and trade and investment policies of the Eurasian Economic Union and technical standards that Chinese enterprises are concerned about.
On the sidelines of Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli’s visit to Belarus in late September 2014, the two sides reached important consensus on the acceleration of the construction of the China-Belarus Industrial Park. They agreed that the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the Belarusian Ministry of Economy would jointly establish a coordination group to step up the industrial park construction. Two meetings have been held in October and December 2014 respectively.