Prime Minister Ana Brnabic spoke today with Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Serbia Chen Bo about the continuation of the development of outstanding bilateral relations in the political, economic and foreign trade fields.

During the meeting, Brnabic placed special emphasis on the growth of economic cooperation, underlining that the volume of trade in goods in 2021 amounted to €5.3 billion, with the growth of Serbian exports by 157.7%.
According to her, in just five months of this year, the exchange was €2.62 billion, which is almost 40 percent more compared to 2021, and growth was also recorded when it comes to exports (more than 76 percent), as and imports (about 32 percent).
She said that in the past year, China was the second largest foreign trade partner of Serbia, and pointed out that during the last decade, Serbia's exports to China increased 152 times, and that in the past three years alone, since 2019, it has tripled.
Also, as she added, out of the five largest Serbian exporters to the world last year, as many as three companies are owned by Chinese investors, which achieved a total export of €1.9 billion.
The Prime Minister expressed her special satisfaction regarding the renewal of the direct Belgrade-Beijing airline line of a Chinese company, as well as the scheduled regular flights of Air Serbia from the end of October.
Speaking about the current political situation in the world, Brnabic said that Serbia supports the one-China policy and considers Taiwan an integral part of the People's Republic of China, and underlined that this position will not change.
Ambassador Chen Bo thanked Serbia for its consistent position and support for China in this matter.
She added that Serbia, on the other hand, can still count on the continuous support of China on the international level, but also the development and improvement of cooperation in other fields, such as the Green Agenda, energy, biotechnology and the development of new technologies.

On May 16, Ambassador M. Stefanovic participated in the Conference on the purchase of products from CEE countries, which was also attended by the Secretary of the Ningbo Municipal Committee and a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC in Zhejiang Peng Jiaxue, special representative in Secreteriat for cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries at the Ministry of Foregin Affairs of the People's Republic of China Jiang Yu, Director General of the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of the Ministry of Trade of the People's Republic of China Wu Zhengping, as well as representatives of the diplomatic corps and business representatives in the People's Republic of China.

In her address, Ambassador M. Stefanovic pointed out that Serbia is very active in all areas within the China-CEEC cooperation mechanism since the establishment of this format and stressed that we attach great importance to improving cooperation with China, as well as with countries from Central and Eastern Europe. Ambassador praised the efforts of the General Administration of Customs of China in facilitating the import of goods from CEEC, and in particular the launch of the "Green Goods Chanel from CEEC" and the website "One-stop service for imports from CEEC", which are the new initiatives presented at the Fair.