Hungarian-Chinese Cooperation on Highest Level

Prime Minister Orbán on a three day visit to Beijing

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  • 2017.05.13. - 13:14

Several agreements have been signed in Beijing, Hungary has grown to become China’s number one economic partner in Central Europe today.

"The Chinese government lifted the Hungarian-Chinese bilateral cooperation to the level of broad strategic partnership, which is the highest level in China", Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told the Hungarian public media after the official negotiations of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Beijing. Mr. Orbán met President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang, several agreements have been signed in the building of the National People's Congress.

“Hungary has grown to become China’s number one economic partner in Central Europe today”, Mr. Szijjártó said the day before. Following meetings with representatives of Bank of China and Chinese Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan, Mr. Szijjártó, who is in the Chinese capital as part of a Hungarian delegation led by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, highlighted the fact that “Hungary is the Central European country that exports most to China, including the most food based on the number of import licences issued; in Central European comparison the most investments on the part of China are made in Hungary, and the number of Chinese tourists to Hungary is also growing at the highest rate within the region”.

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