Vucic meets with Chinese minister of commerce

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss strategic aspects of bilateral and economic relations as well as concrete projects that will strongly accelerate Serbia's growth.

"I am proud of the partnership cooperation with China, which has been strengthened further by the visit by esteemed Minister Wang Wentao and a session of the joint intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation, at which numerous important guidelines were formulated for continued cooperation, especially in terms of large investments in the most important economic sectors," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram account.

Vucic thanked China for supporting EXPO 2027, to be hosted by Belgrade, and noted that carrying out large-scale projects for the event with dependable partners was of the utmost importance for Serbia and would kick-start development of the entire region.

"We also discussed further steps for cooperation and concrete activities as part of the Free Trade Agreement and the Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation in the Infrastructure Sector, which represent the foundation of our economic partnership in many sectors including agriculture, artificial intelligence and ICT, energy and transport infrastructure, the defence industry, science and innovation," Vucic concluded.