China-CEEC Ties: China opens market for goods from central, eastern Europe

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The trade and cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries is growing fast. The first China-CEEC Expo was held in Ningbo City in China's northeastern Zhejiang Province on Saturday. And participating enterprises reached fruitful achievements. CGTN's Ning Hong has more.

A major deal between Slovakia and China. The two countries will establish an aviation simulation and training center with a total investment of 200 million yuan nearly 29 million U.S. dollars.

PAVOL GRMAN, SUPERVISORY BOARD CHAIR VIRTUAL REALITY MEDIA "China's aviation industry is developing fast, and there is a huge potential in the pilot training market. We hope to build this training center for Chinese pilots."

A joint company will be founded, in a cooperation zone China established for CEEC companies.

ROBERT SAMUHEL, DIRECTOR GENERAL UNITED INDUSTRIES, SLOVAKIA "The cooperation zone is one of the partners in this project. It helped to manage some activities and I think the support from the Chinese side is higher and higher."

The China-CEEC Expo has attracted enterprises from 22 countries. And China's growing consumer market has attracted some of the best food manufactures from Europe.

ERIKA EINORE, EXPORT MANAGER ZEMAITIJOS PIENAS, LITHUANIA "Our strategy focuses on sell cheese, and in China, we are searching for partners and for the past few years, we have already got some relationships we are trying to establish."

NING HONG NINGBO "With a growing market and consumer needs, and improving investment circumstances, China is not sitting on its advantage of being a big market, it is devoting more to improving it."

Trade with Central and Eastern European Countries is gaining more support from China. In order to build a fair and efficient environment, Chinese Customs is working with European countries in areas such as Authorized Economic Operator, intellectual property protection and anti-fraud. China has also signed deals with 13 European countries over 51 projects on exporting food products to China.

SONG MINGSHUN, VICE CHAIRMAN CHINA ASSOCIATION FOR STANDARDIZATION "Countries in Central and Eastern Europe are very important to China. They have a very good industrial base, and a developed cultural and business environment. They are good partners."

In 2018, trade between China and Central and Eastern European countries reached over 80 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of over 20 percent from 2017. Ning Hong, CGTN, Ningbo.