Tatarstan President meets CEO of Chinese Weichai Power Engineering Company

On October 16, in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with President/CEO of Chinese Weichai Power Engineering Company Tan Xuguang.

According to Minnikhanov, Tatarstan focuses on expanding all-round contacts with China aimed at strengthening friendship and cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.

"We are actively cooperating with China. Our official and business delegations visit China every year. Chinese partners also come to Tatarstan with a return visit. At the same time, we are developing inter-regional contacts with the Chinese provinces," Minnikhanov said.

He said that the trade and economic representation office of Tatarstan is operating in Beijing, and the Consulate General of China was opened in Kazan last year.

Tatarstan President noted that there are cooperation agreements with a number of Chinese companies. Joint activities are carried out in the field of petrochemistry, engineering, automotive industry, computerization, agriculture, construction, health-care and other spheres.

Minnikhanov stressed that Weichai Power Company is one of the leading industrial corporations in China and the world. "Your engines are also used for trucks produced by KAMAZ Automaker. There are prospects for further use of your components at our enterprise, as well as comprehensive development of our cooperation," Tatarstan President added.

Director General of KAMAZ Automaker Sergei Kogogin, who also took part in the meeting, noted that KAMAZ and the Chinese engineering company have been developing cooperation for several years. Weichai Power supplies gear boxes, double reduction axels and engines to Naberezhnye Chelny. Moreover, it is expected that all buses produced by KAMAZ will be equipped with Weichai Power engines from next year, he said. 

Tan Xuguang thanked Tatarstan President for the hospitality and stressed that Weichai Power has always attached particular importance to the development of partnership relations with Russian companies. "We have good relations with KAMAZ. I am sure that during our visit to Tatarstan we will be able to identify ways of our further cooperation, in particular, to discuss the possibility of localizing our production facilities in the republic," he said.