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The meeting of the Russian part of the joint working group of the regions of the Volga Federal District and the Upper Middle Current of the Yangtze River of the People's Republic of China on cooperation in the trade, economic and humanitarian spheres was held in a videoconference format on Tuesday, December 19, 2017.
First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Penza region Andrey Kulintsev told about the results of work in this direction.
"The project to create a Russian-Chinese agricultural park is successfully implemented in the region. The investment project provides for the cultivation of corn, soy, vegetables, the creation of a poultry complex. This year, the company "Vanyan" Ltd planted 1200 hectares of corn, "- Andrei Kulintsev said in his speech, .
Together with the company "Asia Communication Alliance" (Sichuan Province), a project is being implemented to organize the export supplies of Penza producers' products to the People's Republic of China. In June 2017, the regional government signed a cooperation agreement with this company.
"We are also considering the possibility of participating in a new Russian-Chinese project to organize transportation of food products of Russian production by a high-speed container train "New Silk Road " from Bezymyanka station of the Kuibyshev Railway to Chongqing Station in China," - said the First Deputy Prime Minister.
In addition, the Penza region actively cooperates with the regions of the Upper and Middle Yangtze River in China in the educational sphere. There are program of bachelor's double diplomas in the direction "Pedagogical education" (profile "Music") with the Ganana Pedagogical University and the bachelor's program in the direction "Linguistics" (profile "Theory and practice of intercultural communication") with the Hunan Institute of Foreign Languages.
The official delegation of Jiangxi Province of the People's Republic of China plans to visit the region to discuss possible cooperation in the economic, medical and humanitarian spheres on December 21-23, 2017.
"China today is one of the strategically important partners of the Penza region, therefore, in the near future we will actively develop international cooperation, creating new horizons for the effective development of our countries," - Andrei Kulintsev summed up.