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Harbin to host China-Belarus Industrial and Innovation Cooperation Center
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MINSK, 23 April (BelTA) - A Chinese-Belarusian Industrial and Innovation Cooperation Center will be established in Harbin, BelTA learned from the press service of the National Agency of Investment and Privatization.
During a working trip to China on 13-17 April, a team from the National Agency of Investment and Privatization (NAIP) led by Director Aleksei Pushkarev held a number of important negotiations and presentations in Harbin, Lanzhou and Beijing.
At the Belarusian Embassy in Beijing, NAIP organized a meeting between Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus Aleksandr Chervyakov and representatives from China Machinery Industry Sixth Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd. (CMI Sixth Institute). This Chinese company has built over 20,000 projects worldwide. It plans to fund a Chinese student campus and cultural center in Belarus.
According to the company’s representatives, the required investment for such a project is about 6 billion yuan. The first contact between NAIP and the institute took place during the Investment Days in China event organized by NAIP in November 2025. Since then, NAIP has been supporting the investor at every stage. The project is showing promise: at the embassy meeting, CMI Sixth Institute presented its visual design for the future complex. In May, the delegation is preparing to visit Belarus.
China State Construction Engineering Corporation signed a memorandum of intent with NAIP in Beijing. This was the result of another round of talks that also began in November 2025. The Chinese investor plans to enter Belarus with a hotel modernization and renovation project.
“Our partners are a large state-owned company with extensive experience in hotel construction and renovation, as well as expertise in creating the necessary infrastructure and services. The memorandum of cooperation and mutual understanding is the first documented step towards implementing such a project. Of course, all the main work lies ahead. In this regard, it is very important that tourism is a leading sector for attracting investment to Belarus, and for such an investment project, Belarusian law provides a full range of preferences and incentives. We specifically highlighted this in the memorandum,” Aleksei Pushkarev noted.
The main result of the visit to Heilongjiang Province, with its administrative center in Harbin, was the structuring of relations with the department of industry and information technology of that province. During the negotiations, the sides agreed to establish a Chinese-Belarusian Industrial and Innovation Cooperation Center in Harbin, followed by the signing of a cooperation agreement between the center and NAIP. The center’s mission is to support Belarusian-Chinese projects, a pipeline of which has been developed thanks to the active work of the Belarusian Embassy in China. Some projects focus on exports and cooperation, while others focus on attracting foreign direct investment into Belarus. NAIP will act as the main coordinator for the investment portfolio. Work has already begun on two investment projects in the food industry and agricultural equipment manufacturing.
The agency’s team also took part in the visit of a delegation from the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee to Gansu Province (Lanzhou). The Grodno delegation was led by Grodno Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Boltrik. The purpose of the visit was to boost investment and trade cooperation between the regions, as well as to prepare for the first Belarus-China Forum of Regions, which will take place in Gansu Province in summer 2026. During the visit, the NAIP team took part in conferences with Gansu authorities and businesses, where they presented the investment potential of Belarus.
In addition, through its partner network in China, NAIP attracted a major company from Gansu. This is a large scale agricultural enterprise combining floriculture and livestock farming. The total area of its greenhouses, built to world standards, is 45 million square meters. Following negotiations with Andrei Boltrik, the two sides identified possible competitive advantages of relocating part of the company’s production facilities to Grodno Oblast. The company is now preparing to pay a visit in May.
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