On October 24th, in the framework of the forum “Regional export: opportunities, support, results”, there was held a panel discussion “How to work with China”. The meeting embraced top managers of “Torgoviy soyuz” company, Russian branch of a Chinese retailer “Epinduo”, regional entrepreneurs.
Alexandra Bessonova, the head of the Penza Regional Export Support Center, marked a growing interest of Penza’s businessmen in the Chinese market and successful examples of some companies from Penza which had already entered this promising market.
In the course of the event, representatives of Penza’s companies were introduced to opportunities and features of exporting such goods to China as lumber, industrial materials, foodstuffs, and agricultural products.
Anastasiya Tarasevich, general manager of “Torgoviy soyuz” company, spoke about a demand for Russian goods in the Chinese market and export complications. She emphasized that the main difficulties fro Russian companies were the unreadiness to ship goods in the amount required by Chinese partners, as well as logistic issues.
As a result of the panel discussion, the speakers had an active conversation with representatives of Penza’s companies interested in promoting their products in the Chinese market.
Reference. The forum for Penza regional exporters “Regional export: opportunities, support, results” was held for the purpose of implementing the Ordinance of the President of the Russian Federation of 07.05.2018 No. 204 “On national goals and strategic objectives of the development of the Russian Federation till 2024” and participating in the national project “International cooperation and export”, in which Penza region has taken part since 2019. The project is devoted to increasing the share of Russian goods export and improving the competitiveness of Russian products when entering foreign markets.
