(Togetica Comprehensive News) On the occasion of the first round of free trade agreement between China and Honduras, Honduras introduced to Chinese officials a railway project that needs to invest $ 20 billion to seek discussions with Beijing for investing in the project.possibility.
According to Reuters on Saturday (July 8), Honduras told Chinese officials that they are seeking investors to help build a railway line that needs to invest 20 billion US dollars (S $ 27 billion) to connect the country's Great Western OceanAnd the Pacific Coast.
It is reported that the Minister of Economic Development of Honduras said that officials of the two countries also discussed infrastructure projects related to dams and power generation."We introduced (Chinese officials) to the project that is interested in gaining financing to Hongdulas, which is important to the development of our country."
Cerato said that the planned railway in the planned two oceans may be completed within about 15 years.He also added that as the world's second largest economy, Chinese officials have expressed interest in using public and private fund development projects.
Honduras, located in Central America in March this year, broke its long -term diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established diplomatic relations with mainland China.The two states of Zhonghong issued a joint statement in June to announce the consensus on discussing the free trade agreement.Honduras hopes to sell domestic agricultural products to mainland China market through Beijing to lead Honduras out of economic difficulties.Last month, China was allowed to import Hongdu white pairs of shrimp, bananas and coffee beans.
According to a press release issued by the Ministry of Commerce website on Saturday, the first round of free trade agreement between the two countries was held on Friday (July 7) in Tegoshigaba, the capital of Honduras.Wang Shouwen led the Chinese delegation to attend the meeting.The two sides conducted in -depth consultations on overall goals, work responsibilities, and next arrangements to obtain widespread consensus.However, Chinese official reports did not mention information about the aforementioned $ 20 billion railway project.
Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday that the first meeting of the China -Hong Kong Economic and Trade Mixing Committee was also held in Tegusica on Friday.According to Xinhua News Agency, Zhonghong both exchanged opinions on developing bilateral economic and trade relations, joint construction of the “Belt and Road”, promoting trade investment, and cooperating under the framework of the WTO.The temporary office of the Chinese Embassy in Hongdu, and the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hong Guomin Parliament, Celaria, and foreign minister Rena attended the meeting.
The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Honduras is considered to be related to the economic and debt dilemma facing Honduras and China ’s investment in Honduras.According to Reuters in March, Foreign Minister of Honduras said that Honduras had a huge demand for investment cooperation, but Taiwan could not provide it.After Zhonghong signed a joint announcement of the establishment of diplomatic relations, Taiwan Tsai Ing -wen stated on Facebook that Taiwan "will not compete for meaningless money with China."The broken diplomatic relations between Honduras and Taiwan have reduced the countries that have established diplomatic relations with Taiwan to 13.
