GOMEL, 3 May (BelTA) – Economic cooperation with the Chinese city of Chengdu (Sichuan Province) is among the priorities for Gomel, Chairman of the Gomel City Hall Piotr Kirichenko said as he met with the journalists from the People's Republic of China, BelTA has learned. Piotr Kirichenko recalled that the memorandum to establish friendly relations between Gomel and Chengdu was signed in November 2016. “We hope that this partnership and interaction will develop in many areas. However,...

GOMEL, 31 March (BelTA) – In 2016, the trade between Belarus and Russia’s Bryansk Oblast went up by 14% as against 2015, Bryansk Oblast Deputy Governor Mikhail Kobozev told reporters as he attended the celebrations of the Day of Unity of Peoples of Belarus and Russia in Gomel on 31 March, BelTA has learned. Mikhail Kobozev noted that Bryansk Oblast and Belarus have established strong and reliable relations. Despite the economic difficulties, they managed to increase the trade by 14%....

GOMEL, 24 February (BelTA) – Belarus’ general economic policy is aimed at making the cost of building 1m2 of housing to be equal to the average salary for all population categories by 2020. Prime Minister of Belarus Andrei Kobyakov made the statement while on a working trip to Gomel Oblast on 24 February, BelTA has learned. In Gomel Oblast Andrei Kobyakov was made familiar with the operation of the Gomel integrated home-building factory. He was told what measures are being taken to...

GOMEL, 2 February (BelTA) – The Belarusian agricultural machinery engineering company Gomselmash has started exporting the grain harvesters KZS-1624-1 (Palesse GS16). The harvester boasts the highest performance among the Gomselmash harvesters, BelTA learned from Vasily Kozlov, Head of the Office for Sales in Central Russia at Gomselmash. The Palesse GS16 harvester can harvest fields with the crop yield of up to 120 centners per hectare. The harvesters were made for Russia’s...

GOMEL, 20 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian-Russian joint venture ZAO Bryanskselmash intends to occupy up to 50% of the Russian market of harvesters within the next few years. The ambitious plans were revealed by the company’s Director General Valery Suleyev at a press conference for Russian and Belarusian mass media in Bryansk, BelTA has learned. As a result of hard work in 2016 Bryanskselmash already occupies over half of the harvester market in Russia’s Orenburg Oblast, Ulyanovsk...

GOMEL, 5 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash will make the first batch of ear corn harvesters Palesse MS6 in 2017, BelTA learned from Sergei Fedorovich, Chief Designer of the company’s harvester engineering division. The Palesse MS6 harvester is designed to gather in ear corn in the fields meant to produce corn seeds. The harvester will process six rows at once due to peculiarities of growing hybrid corn for seeds. According to the source,...

GOMEL, 25 November (BelTA) – The Belarusian mechanical engineering company Gomselmash has sent the first batch of cotton harvesters to Cameroon, BelTA learned from Igor Korotkevich, First Deputy Director of the company’s Regional Sales Department. The harvesters will be delivered to Cameroon in roughly one month. “By that time our specialists will arrive in Cameron in order to prepare the machines for field operation and take part in their testing,” said the Gomselmash...

GOMEL, 14 September (BelTA) – Belarus may become a springboard for Finnish companies to reach the Eurasian Economic Union market, BelTA learned from Aleksej Leppanen, senior advisor at the Finnish state-run organization Finpro, which supports and coordinates Finnish companies on international markets. He took part in the 5th Belarusian-Finnish Economic Forum on 13 September. Aleksej Leppanen said: “Apart from the existing potential of setting up joint ventures Belarus can become an...

The Education, Sport, and Tourism Department of the Gomel City Executive Committee and the Education Office of the Bryansk city administration have signed an agreement on friendship and cooperation, BelTA has learned. The document was signed by Anna Melnikova, Head of the Education, Sport, and Tourism Department of the Gomel City Executive Committee, and Alexander Kravchenko, Head of the Education Office of the Bryansk city administration. The latter attended the August conference of...

GOMEL, 11 August (BelTA) – The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft will carry out seismic prospecting at hydrocarbon deposits in Russia and Ukraine, the company’s press service told BelTA. In line with the contract signed with RN-Stavropolneftegaz, which is a daughter enterprise of NK Rosneft, Belarusian specialists will carry out 3D seismic prospecting in an area as large as 185km2 in Stavropol Territory by the end of the year. The project is supposed to produce high-quality...