CHINA'S TOP LEGISLATOR HIGHLIGHTS MUTUTAL INVESTMENTS WITH BELARUS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MINSK  (NNN-XINHUA) -- China's top legislator, Wu Bangguo, says enterprises from China and Belarus should further enhance mutual investment to facilitate bilateral trade relations.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wu, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), made the remarks while meeting with Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich here Sunday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The two leaders also witnessed the signing of nine agreements on areas such as economic and technical co-operation and establishment of industrial park zones.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The Chinese government encourages and supports the enterprises to go out in the foreign investment, actively participate in Belarus's economic and social development and major projects, and also welcomes the Belarusian enterprises to invest in China," said Wu during the meeting.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wu added that the pragmatic co-operation between China and Belarus had seen rapid growth in the past years, with bilateral trade volume nearly 20 times more than the early period when the two countries forged diplomatic ties, and the two peoples had drawn benefits from the progress made on such major projects as infrastructure, mechanical manufacture and technological park zones.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wu, however, said there was still a huge potential for greater China-Belarus trade co-operation, and the two sides needed careful planning, better investment policy, wider financing channel and more direct investment.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The two countries enjoyed the advantage of complementing each other on fund, technology and market, and at the same time should expand cooperation on technological innovation to explore market drive for new growth of bilateral co-operation, he said.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Myasnikovich said Belarus hoped to learn from China about its economic development zones, work with China to tap co-operative potentials on areas like mechanical manufacture, mineral resources, infrastructure, aviation, aerospace and technology, and promote upgrading from trade to investment co-operation between the two countries.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Belarus welcomed more investment from the Chinese enterprises and was ready to create favorable conditions in this regard, said Myasnikovich.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also on Sunday, Wu attended the inauguration ceremony of a Confucius Institute in the State Linguistic University in Minsk. -- NNN-XINHUA</span></div></div>

CHINA'S TOP LEGISLATOR HIGHLIGHTS MUTUTAL INVESTMENTS WITH BELARUS

MINSK  (NNN-XINHUA) -- China's top legislator, Wu Bangguo, says enterprises from China and Belarus should further enhance mutual inves...

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