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25 Apr 2016

Belarus looks forward to working with Alibaba Group

MINSK, 25 April (BelTA) - Belarus looks forward to developing cooperation with Alibaba Group, the press service of the Economy Ministry told BelTA while commenting on a meeting between Economy Minister Vladimir Zinovsky and officials of Alibaba Group, the leading Chinese and global Internet retailer. The meeting took place as part of Vladimir Zinovsky’s visit to the People’s Republic of China.

During the meeting the parties discussed the first steps to establish a mutually beneficial cooperation in ensuring the access of Belarusian goods to the Internet trading platforms of China with the assistance of Alibaba Group, increasing the use of electronic trading platforms in mutual trade of Belarus and China.

“Cooperation of Belarus and Alibaba Group will, on the one hand, help increase export of Belarusian goods to China and, on the other hand, will draw to the electronic trading platform of the company new customers not only from Belarus but also from other countries-members of the Eurasian Economic Union,” Vladimir Zinovsky noted.

The Minister invited the representatives of the Chinese company to visit Belarus and expressed the hope that this meeting would become the beginning of full-fledged mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation in the field of electronic commerce.

Vladimir Zinovsky also met with Liang Liming, Vice Governor of Zhejiang Province. The two parties discussed bilateral cooperation as part of the Silk Road Economic Belt project, the development of the Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park Great Stone, the ways to intensify interregional cooperation and also implementation of mutually beneficial Belarusian-Chinese investment projects with the participation of the business circles of Zhejiang Province.

Vladimir Zinovsky thanked the leadership of Zhejiang Province for assistance and support in the development of cooperation between the province and Belarus, for continued attention and assistance to joint investment projects, the biggest of which is the establishment of BelGee passenger car production in Belarus involving Geely Holding Group.

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