China, EU – Baltic States, Legislation, Lithuania, Markets and Companies, Transport

Neris Germanas and Wei Ruixing. Vilnius, 15.04.2015. Photo: urm.lt

Vice-Minister Germanas underlined that high-level dialogue and development of the people-to-people contact, in particular young people, were of great importance to the promotion of bilateral relations and initiatives. Cooperation between China and sixteen Central and Eastern European countries in the “1+16” format is a great platform for cooperation in the fields of transport, infrastructure, banking sector, agriculture, education, and other areas.

The diplomats discussed development of economic relations – China’s Ambassador noted that the transport and logistics sectors of Lithuania are of great interest to his country. The Baltic region has been named as bearing strategic importance for the Europe-China transport corridor in the new transport initiative ‘Silk Road’.

China is Lithuania’s largest trading partner in Asia. Lithuanian companies are interested in exporting high quality products to China. Lithuania calls on China to grant an export permit for food products as soon as possible. Trade cooperation between Lithuania and China’s Shandong Province, with the population of 97 million, has increased and brought many economic benefits. 

Wei Ruixing is the 9th Ambassador of China to Lithuania.