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Today, Minister Karimov had a meeting with a vanguard group from China to hold Days of Heilongjiang Province in Tatarstan. The meeting was attended by representatives of the Tatarstan Ministry of Culture, the Tatarstan Ministry of Sports, the Tatarstan Ministry of Youth Affairs, the Tatarstan Ministry of Education, and the Tatarstan Ministry of Health.

“The trade turnover between Tatarstan and China is growing annually. In 2018, it amounted to US$ 628.7 million. The republic has ties with a number of provinces in China. To date, 7 agreements have been signed on cooperation in trade, economy, science, technology, culture, social and humanitarian spheres”, said Albert Karimov.

From the Chinese side, the delegation was headed by Wang Haijun, Head of Foreign Office of the Heilongjiang Provincial People’s Government.

The main topic of the meeting was the issues of preparation to the Days of Heilongjiang Province in Tatarstan; the event dates were tentatively set in July 2020.

As part of his working visit to China, Minister Karimov visited the China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF). The 21st CHTF will last until November 17, 2019.

A number of business meetings took place on the sidelines of the Fair; in particular, the Minister met with the top manager of the Fair organiser.

The CHTF has been held annually since 1999. Some 500,000 people visited the current Fair, and about 3,000 companies, including those from Russia, exhibited their products in it.

This year, the Fair will demonstrate the latest technologies in such areas as artificial intelligence, smart manufacturing, energy-saving and green technologies, IT, the active introduction of 5G technology, biology, and others.

The CHTF programme featured specialised seminars, industrial conferences, presentations for investors and manufacturers.

On the second day of their visit to China, the Tatarstan delegation studied the activities and technology of Haier Group’s digital production.

Minister Karimov visited the corporation’s industrial park and made tours of the smart factory of air conditioners and a washing machine factory. Haier’s smart factories are a package of automated digital modules that allows their personnel to directly contact the end users for taking into account all their wishes and requests in the production process.

After visit to the factories, the Minister had a meeting with Vice President of Haier Overseas Electric Appliances Corp. Ltd Mr. Li Pan. Particular attention at the meeting was paid to issues of cooperation between Tatarstan and Haier Group.

During the meeting, the Minister noted the 2016 launch of the Russia’s first factory for the production of refrigerators in Naberezhnye Chelny and this year’s opening of the Haier Rus Industrial Park with the first washing machine factory. The Tatarstan side emphasised that the project to create the Haier Rus Industrial Park will receive comprehensive support during the entire cycle of its implementation.

It is also worth noting that Tatarstan-Chinese cooperation has been developing for more than ten years. In 2018, an action plan on mutual promotion of cooperation was signed between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Shandong Province.

At the end of the day, the delegation from Tatarstan visited the Haier HQ Museum.

The Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov paid a business visit to the People’s Republic of China, Qingdao City (Shandong Province).

During the visit, a meeting was held with Director-General of Foreign Affairs Office in Qingdao Municipal Government, Mr. Mou Jundian. At the meeting, the Minister was accompanied by Trade and Economic Representative of Tatarstan in China Yevgeny Gorshkov.

In particular, the first issue for discussion was the prospects for cooperation between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Shandong Province in such sectors as agriculture, shipbuilding and helicopter manufacturing, oil production and oil refining, electric power, investment, and medicine.

The issue of implementing joint projects with China-based Weichai Power was also raised: in September 2018, KAMAZ and Weichai Power Co. Ltd. signed an agreement for the creation of a facility to manufacture industrial diesel and gas engines in Russia with a volume of more than 17 litres and a capacity of 520 to 2000 kW. To date, the project is in its development stage.

Shandong is a province in the East China region. Its administrative centre is the city of Jinan. The largest city and port of the province is Qingdao.

In the 1st half of 2019, the foreign trade turnover between Tatarstan and China amounted to US$ 238 million.

A delegation from China visited the Kazan Helicopters of the Russian Helicopters Holding (part of the Rostec Corporation). The event took place during a working visit by Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Li Zhanshu to Tatarstan as part of his official visit to Russia. The delegation was accompanied by Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin.

The guests took a tour of the unit assembly department to see how the helicopters of the Mi-8/17, Mi-38 family and Ansat are being built. The delegation also visited the final assembly of helicopters. In addition, the company’s flight test facility launched a flight presentation of the Ansat helicopter, which participated in the demonstration tour of the Russian Helicopters Holding in the Southeast Asia countries.

The cooperation of the Kazan Helicopters with PRC began in the 1950s. Over the years, China acquired 186 medium-lift helicopters, including Mi-4, Mi-8, Mi-17, and Mi-17V-5. In addition, Mi-4 under the name of “Harbin Z-5” was produced under license from 1958 to 1979 at the Chinese plant No. 122, where a total of 545 helicopters were built. The full-scale production of these rotorcrafts was organised with the participation of experts from the Kazan Helicopters.

In autumn of 2018, the Russian Helicopters Holding signed a contract to supply 20 Ansat helicopters in the interests of the China Association of Disaster Medicine.

Based on information by Kazan Helicopters press service

An introductory meeting with a delegation from Harbin City (China, Heilongjiang Province) was held today in the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan. At the Ministry, the guests were welcomed by Deputy Minister German Lerner.

The Chinese delegation was headed by Vice-Mayor of the Harbin Municipal People’s Government Zhang Wanping.

“As an administrative centre, Harbin has much in common with your republic. We, like you, are famous as a centre of engineering, advanced information technology and eco-friendly products”, said the Vice-Mayor.

The main issue on the meeting’s agenda was the discussion of partnership between the two regions in various areas. “When defining the aspects of our mutual cooperation, we would first like to highlight areas such as science and technology, industry and trade, investment and tourism,” said Mr. Zhang Wanping.

In order to develop cooperation opportunities between Tatarstan and Harbin, representatives of the Chinese delegation proposed to establish business relations with the Harbin New District (a special economic zone in Harbin).

As part of their business visit, guests from China visited the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency. On September 25, 2019, a working meeting is scheduled at the Kazan City Administration.

Today, Minister Karimov arrived in Harbin (Heilongjiang Province, China) as part of the Tatarstan President’s delegation. The visit of the Tatarstan delegation was timed to coincide with the 6th Russian-Chinese Expo 2019, which takes place from June 15 to June 19 at the Harbin International Exhibition and Conference Centre.

The extensive visit programme includes various official and business events: the meeting of the Tatarstan President with Governor of Heilongjiang Province Wang Wentao, the participation of the Tatarstan delegation in the Tatarstan-Heilongjiang Business Forum and a visit to the 6th Russian-Chinese Expo 2019.

The second half of the day was devoted to business meetings with representatives of Chinese companies. The delegation visited the Harbin Corner Science and Technology Company and the Wondersun Diary Company.

The programme continued with the meeting of the Tatarstan President with Secretary of Heilongjiang Provincial CPC Committee Zhang Qingwei.

An important stage of the visit was the signing of an Action Plan to the Agreement between the Government of Tatarstan and the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province on trade, economic, scientific, technology, and cultural cooperation.

The visit to Harbin ended with a concert of masters of arts from Tatarstan organised within the framework of the 6th Russian-Chinese Expo 2019.