MINSK - The visiting China's top legislator Wu Bangguo said here Sunday that the enterprisesof China and Belarus should further enhance mutual investment to facilitate bilateral traderelations.
Wu, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), made theremarks while meeting with Belarusian President Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich in Minsk.
The two leaders also witnessed the signing ceremony of nine agreements on areas likeeconomic and technical cooperation and establishment of industrial park zones.
"The Chinese government encourages and supports the enterprises to go out in the foreigninvestment, actively participate in Belarus's economic and social development and majorprojects, and also welcomes the Belarusian enterprises to invest in China," said Wu during themeeting.
Wu said that the pragmatic cooperation between China and Belarus has seen rapid growth inthe past years, with bilateral trade volume nearly 20 times more than the early period when thetwo countries forged diplomatic ties, and the two peoples have drawn benefits from theprogress made on such major projects as infrastructure, mechanical manufacture and technological park zones.
Wu, however, said there is still a huge potential to dig for China-Belarus trade cooperation, andthe two sides need careful planning, better investment policy, wider financing channel and moredirect investment.
The two countries enjoy the advantage of complementing each other on fund, technology andmarket, and at the same time should expand cooperation on technological innovation to exploremarket drive for new growth of bilateral cooperation, he said.
Myasnikovich, for his part, said Belarus hoped to learn from China about its economicdevelopment zones, work with China to tap cooperative potentials on areas like mechanicalmanufacture, mineral resources, infrastructure, aviation, aerospace and technology, andpromote upgrading from trade to investment cooperation between the two countries.
Belarus welcomes more investment from the Chinese enterprises and is ready to createfavorable conditions in this regard, said Myasnikovich.
Also on Sunday, Wu attended the inauguration ceremony of a Confucius Institute in the StateLinguistic University in Minsk.
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