China-Belarus trade in 2009 reaches USD 810 mln.

BEIJING, March 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Since the establishment of diplomatic
relations between China and Belarus in 1992, their bilateral trade
turnover has increased 13 times and, according to the results of 2009,
reached 810 million dollars, Chinese Deputy Minister of Trade Gao Hucheng
said here on Saturday.
"At present, China is the biggest trade partner of Belarus, which on
its part occupies the 8th place among the CIS countries in the volume of
trade with the People's Republic of China," he said in an interview with
the news agency Xinhua on the threshold of a visit of Chinese Vice
President Xi Jinping to Minsk where he will go after a four-day visit to
Russia that began on Saturday.
"Against the background of the dynamically growing volume of bilateral
trade, there is a constant improvement of trade nomenclature," Gao Hucheng
stressed, "which is manifested itself in the increasing share of
medicines, motor car spare parts and components in it, as well as in the
noticeable growth of the share of electronics, machine-building and highly
technological products."
"Possibilities for further development of cooperation between the
countries are stipulated, in particular, by the factor that their
economies are mutually supplementary," the deputy minister of trade
explained. "Belarus has a serious highly technological potential, advanced
machine-building and highly qualified labor resources, and China has a
developed market, a possibility to produce different kinds of products and
a growing financial potential."
"Of course, the common task of both states now is to overcome the
effects of the global financial crisis and preservation of the tendency
for restoring the national economy," Gao Hucheng said in conclusion,
expressing confidence that the measures of economic encouragement being
taken by Beijing and Minsk "will open unprecedentedly wide opportunities
for the participation of the two countries' enterprises in joint economic
projects."
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