President of Belarus visiting Beijing

25 апреля 2019

The relations Belarus and China have the status of a "trustful all-round strategic partnership and mutually beneficial cooperation". Such a high status was confirmed today in Beijing, where Alexander Lukashenko is on a working visit on these days.

Tomorrow, the Belarusian leader will take part in the events of the Belt and Road Forum, and today our President held negotiations with the top leadership of China. The meeting of the head of Belarus and the President of the PRC once again became a confirmation of warm and friendly relations between the politicians and between the states. Alexander Lukashenko also held the same open and fruitful meeting with the leader of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

These days, the first persons from all over the world come to Beijing. China gathers friends. The Second International Cooperation Forum  The Belt and Road is  an opportunity to discuss the development of the PRC global initiative to create transnational trade corridors. 

Belarus is among the priorities of the People’s Republic of China.

The President of Belarus congratulated the Chairman of the People's Republic of China and the entire Chinese people on  the anniversary dates: the 40th anniversary of the reform and the upcoming 70th anniversary of the creation of New China.

As part of the Belt and Road initiative, China has signed cooperation documents with more than 120 countries. The idea is simple: transport corridors with the necessary infrastructure by land and by sea between the Asian-Pacific region and Europe, a trade route between the West and the East, which will strengthen regional cooperation and will allow to lower trade barriers, the revival of the silk road. The experts are increasingly talking about the transition from geopolitics to geoeconomics tied to China. Belarus supported the idea and was one of the first to join the project.

Xi Jinping, PRC Chairman: "Over the past 6 years since the launching of the Belt and the Road initiative, cooperation in its joint implementation has been successful. The Great Stone Industrial Park has become one of the exemplary projects of our cooperation. We are ready, together with the Belarusian side, to take advantage of the possibilities of cooperation within the framework of the “Belt and Road” to expand and deepen bilateral relations for the benefit of the peoples of Belarus and China. I would like to note the great successes of Belarus in state-building and economic development."

Just over a year, China has changed the structure of its economy. Now it is growing not at the expense of exports, production, but at the expense of domestic consumption. What does this mean for us? In the first place this is an opportunity for Belarus, and for other countries to enter this market.