Silk Road Economic Development
Research Center (SREDRC) and One Belt One Road Research Institute (OBORRI) of
Chu Hai College co-organized the seminar on China-Ukraine Trade and More on 29th
Sep 2018. Ukraine as a major economy at
the crossroad of Eurasia has every potential to recover its past glory. As last
as in the Soviet era, it had been the main industrial and agricultural centre
of the confederation. In recent years,
it has been a major source of technology transfer fro China and given its
fertile back soil and its insistence against genetic modification. China’s Belt and Road Initiative aims to
resurrect millennium old Silk Road and Ukraine could very well be once again
the hub connecting the East from China, Central Asia and Caucasus, the West of
Eastern, Central and Western Europe, the north of Russia and the Baltic Sea and
the south through the Black Sea to the Middle East. In the beginning, Dr CHAN Man Hung, Thomas
(Director, One Belt One Road Research Institute) gave welcome speech and
introduced each speaker.
Mr. Joseph Chan (Chairman of the
Silk Road Economic Development Research Center) gave opening address.
Mr. Olekandr Romanovskyy
(Director, Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Agrarian
Policy and Food of Ukraine) was the first speaker and his topic entitled “Ukraine
on the World Agrarian Map: Export, Import, Prospects of Cooperation between
Ukraine & China”. Firstly, Mr.
Romanovskyy shared the role of Agribusiness in Ukraine that had 18% of GDP.
Ukraine is farmers paradise in
which had largest-arable land bank in Europe and No. 10 globally. Their production of cereals and legumes were
introduced.
The export and import products trade between Ukraine and China were mentioned. In 2017, Ukraine exported about $1016M to China and only imported $125M from China.
Q&A in the first session.
The second speaker was Prof. Igor
Golubii (Vice-Director, Scientific and Pedagogical Activities, International
Relations, Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National
University of Kyiv, Ukraine) and his presentation named “Trade between China
and Ukraine”. Prof. Golubii said China
recognized the independence of Ukraine on 27 Dec 1991 and Ukraine opened the
Embassy of Ukraine in the People’s Republic of China in March 1993.
Over the past decade, China and
Ukraine had regularly and in good faith demonstrated their readiness to expand
cooperation with each other in various fields.
Then he showed us the top 10 Ukrainian exports to China.
He also showed top 10 China
exports to Ukraine. It observed the no.
1 was electronic equipment.
Prof. Iogr Golubii said Ukraine
(unlike Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan or Azerbaijan) was still not an active
member of the “Silk Road of the 21st Century” inititative. Then he explained why China should be
interested in Ukraine because of geographic location and potential hub to EU,
as well as Ukraine’s agricultural industry.
During Q&A, Mr. Jimmy Kwok (Chairman, FHKI) asked question about his
suggestions to improve the structure of trade.
The last speaker was Prof.
Oleksandr Pidchosa (Assoicate Professor, Department of International Finance,
Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of
Kyiv, Ukraine) and his presentation topic was “Economic and Investment
Cooperation between Ukraine and Hong Kong”.
Firstly, Prof. Pidchose analyzed
the Hong Kong’s import & re-export structure and Ukraine export structure. He got the following complementary map for
trade cooperation.
The trade amount between Ukraine
and Hong Kong from 2015 to 2017 were described.
Finally, Prof. Pidchose also demonstrated the SWOT analysis of trade cooperation between Ukraine and Hong Kong.
Last Q&A Session
Reference:
SREDRC - http://www.silkroadresearch.org/
OBORRI - https://www.chuhai.edu.hk/node/1794
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