Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze met in China’s province Dalian with his counterpart Premier of State Council Li Keqiang on July 1, discussing trade relations between their countries.
Bakhtadze’s press office said that at the meeting the Georgian and Chinese leaders spoke of increasing Georgian export to China, the prospective to transform the country into a regional hub, as well as the ways to attract leading companies to invest in Georgia and open their regional offices.
According to the Chinese PM, relations between China and Georgia “have witnessed healthy and stable development on the basis of mutual respect and equality.”
He also said China is willing to align its development strategy with Georgia’s and promote the Belt and Road cooperation on the principle of achieving shared growth through discussion and collaboration while making good use of Georgia’s geographic position.
“China would like to expand mutual investment based on equality and mutual benefit, and strengthen interconnection and infrastructure construction abiding by openness, transparency and equal competition,” Li Keqiang added.
China was the fourth largest trading partner for Georgia in 2018. Georgia’s trade turnover with China, according to the National Statistics Office (Geostat) stood at USD 1 billion in 2018, with exports at USD 198 million (USD 201.7 million in 2017) and imports at USD 833.9 million (USD 732.9 million in 2017).
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