The Tolochin Cannery is preparing a project to establish a joint venture with a Chinese company

July 7, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Republican Unitary Enterprise "Tolochin Cannery" and the Chinese company Inner Mongolia Nailun Group Corp. are preparing an investment project to create a joint venture. This was announced today at a meeting with an official delegation from Harbin (PRC) by Oleg Matskevich, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, as reported by a BELTA correspondent. The project envisages attracting direct Chinese investment in potato cultivation and freezing. As Oleg Matskevich emphasized, the high level of diplomatic relations established between Belarus and China allows for the active development of business contacts between the regions of the two states. The foreign trade turnover of the Vitebsk region with the PRC has more than tripled since 2005, with an increase in goods exports by 1.7 times. In a conversation with Jiang Goven, Deputy Secretary of the Harbin CPC Committee and head of the official delegation, the Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee proposed that Chinese partners participate in the high-tech park creation project, organize contacts between the Academy of Veterinary Medicine and Polotsk State University for training Chinese students in specialties in demand in China, and develop a plan for cooperation between Harbin and Vitebsk, including the development of bilateral contacts not only in the economic sphere but also in tourism, education, culture, and healthcare. Head of the Chinese delegation Jiang Goven noted that the visit to Vitebsk allowed for the identification of key areas of cooperation and the filling of the bilateral cooperation agreement between Vitebsk and Harbin, signed at the beginning of the current year, with concrete content. The delegation from Harbin is on an official two-day visit to Vitebsk. It includes heads of authorities and representatives of business circles involved in tourism, high technologies, construction, and the production of energy-saving equipment and materials. Specifically for business representatives, a meeting was organized at the Vitebsk City Executive Committee with the heads of enterprises and organizations of the city and region interested in expanding cooperation with the PRC. -0-