DUSHANBE, 22.08.2017 /NIAT “Khovar”/. Tajikistan and China intend to increase trade turnover to $ 3 billion by 2020. It was said by the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Tajikistan Sharif Said during a business forum of Tajikistan and the Chinese province of Hainan in Dushanbe.

According to him, since the signing of the signing of Treaty on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between Tajikistan and the People’s Republic of China, trade turnover several increased, interregional and investment cooperation expanded, and there are some successes in bilateral trade.

The cross-border trade is an important component of economic relations. The Kulma-Karasu checkpoint is functioning successfully. A key aspect of building cooperation with Chinese partners is to promote trade and strengthen business contacts between the two countries through the organization of exhibition and congress events. Tajikistan has created a comfortable environment for business development, free competition and investment.

The business forum was organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Tajikistan with the support of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and the China International Trade Promotion Committee of Hainan City. A Chinese delegation with the participation of 25 large Chinese companies was led by the Chairman of the China International Trade Promotion Committee of Hainan Lee Judze. Representatives of relevant ministries and departments of the country, about one hundred leading domestic entrepreneurs, interested in cooperation with the PRC, attended the business forum by the Tajik side.