Szydło: High hopes for development of Poland-China economic ties

 Poland has great hopes for development of economic cooperation with China, Prime Minister Beata Szydło said on Saturday in Riga during a China-CEE summit. According to her, participation in the summit of 16 CEE states with China is part of Poland’s strategy of dialogue with China. The prime minister noted the visit this year to Poland of Chinese president Xi Jinping, as well as her planned visit to China next year. Szydło stressed that for Poland communication and infrastructure projects are especially important. “We want to build joint transportation, maritime, and rail projects. We are ready for that and will also be presenting our own proposals in these areas…This is a great opportunity for our region. If we capitalize on this, if economic projects take shape and we can proceed to implement them, that would be a big success,” she stated. The 16 CEE countries that took part in the summit are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, and Macedonia.