Brest region and China's Anhui province are working to deepen cooperation in the automotive industry

During the visit to the People’s Republic of China from 7 to 12 November, the delegation of the Brest region headed by the Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee Petr Parkhomchik held a series of negotiations to expand industrial cooperation, including in the automotive industry.

As Pyotr Parkhomchik emphasized, interregional dialogue is one of the key foundations of bilateral Belarusian-Chinese partnership:

- We regularly hold joint meetings, and specialists from Anhui province visit Brest region. Now we have organized our third visit to China, the purpose of which is to build our system of work more efficiently.

During the negotiations, special attention was paid to the development of cooperation in the automotive industry.

- There are certain successes in the field of industry: our enterprises are successfully working to master the production of different types of transport, the head of Brest region said. We are talking about both the cargo segment with a carrying capacity of 3.5 to 7 and up to 9 tons, and the passenger segment. Now we have agreed to increase the number of cars produced in our country and directly in the Brest region. It is very important that we are not only talking about increasing the number of cars and trucks produced, but also solving localization issues. In order to move to this stage, it is necessary, of course, to increase the volume of production and sales of cars in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

It is worth saying that Anhui Province is a powerful automotive cluster in China, where the advanced competencies of the industry are concentrated, which is of great interest to Brest machine builders.

- This is a cluster of a number of manufacturers of passenger transport. Our partner with whom we are already interacting works here: JAC, as well as Chery, a joint venture between JAC and Volkswagen, NIO, BYD. This is a serious center in the production of passenger cars. This topic is extremely interesting for us, and we agreed on serious steps to develop and promote this direction in our country and specifically in the Brest region, the Chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee concluded. Parkhomchik told how Belarusian-Chinese refrigerator production is developing in Baranovichi