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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has started a visit to Asia, and will visit several countries, according to the presidential press office.
They stated that “Alexander Lukashenko will visit several states for top-level talks, which will address large-scale projects in various areas that hold promise for the country. East Asia and South East Asia are regions that are leaders in global development and are main drivers of the global economy. That is the reason for the high interest in the development of cooperation with Asian states, which is a foreign policy priority of Belarus, and forms the foundation of our multi-vector policies.”
Lukashenko has first arrived in Beijing, where he has been meeting with President Xi Jinping.
Belarus First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Snopkov said that the moment had arrived to strengthen our ties throughout the entire range of investment and economic co-operation. 2026-2027 have been set aside for industrial co-operation between Belarus and China. He added that “This interaction focuses on eleven key technologies that are vital for Belarus. Our goal is to obtain these technologies and work together with our Chinese partners to manufacture products based on them. This is extremely important for us and will certainly give a significant boost to our economic development.”
The “eleven key technologies” mentioned represent the core industrial and scientific framework established for the 2026–2027 Belarus-China bilateral cooperation initiative. Announced following Lukashenko’s summit with Xi, this aims to legally acquire, localize, and co-manufacture advanced Chinese technology to modernise Belarusian industry.
While Belarus has not listed the eleven items in a single numbered document, Belarusian Presidential decrees and state science programs for 2026–2030 group these vital sectors into specific strategic areas:
Advanced Industrial & Mechanical Engineering
Robotic Manufacturing & Machine Tools: Designing automated assembly lines, with active domestic projects including automated milking systems and factory automation.
Intelligent Mining & Heavy Machinery: Deploying artificial intelligence (AI) into massive quarry trucks and dump trucks (such as BelAZ) to remotely control vehicles and boost mine productivity.
Next-Gen Agricultural Machinery: Scaling up precision farming equipment, automated harvesters (Gomselmash), and smart tractors equipped with satellite-linked AI sensors.
High-Tech Electronics & Computing
Microelectronics & Semiconductors: Modernising Belarus’s historic legacy in electronic components to build microchips and instrumentation independent of Western supply chains.
Digital Technologies & Artificial Intelligence
Integrating machine learning into healthcare diagnostics, heavy industry logistics, and structural financial frameworks.
Smart Mobility & Aviation
Electric Vehicles (EVs) & Urban Transit: Advancing electric buses, batteries, and consumer EVs (primarily via platforms like Belkommunmash) using imported Chinese technology.
Unmanned Systems & Drones
Developing autonomous drones and driverless municipal appliances used for precision crop dusting, surveillance, and border monitoring.
Additive Technologies & New Materials
Accelerating industrial 3D printing, advanced metallurgy, and chemical compound alternatives.
Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
Creating local medicine alternatives, synthetic biochemistry components, and processing technologies.
Security and Infrastructure
Constructing hard scientific infrastructure for regional telecommunications, cybersecurity, and public monitoring frameworks.
Cross-Border Financial Telecommunications
Transitioning bilateral trade to unified electronic infrastructures (such as digital signatures and cloud banking ecosystems) to completely secure operations from external sanctions.
Implementation Hub
The primary testing ground for these 11 technologies is the Great Stone China-Belarus Industrial Park near Minsk. Operating under tax-free regimes and single-window administrative support, the park integrates Chinese R&D directly into Belarusian manufacturing ecosystems to drive targeted technological breakthroughs.
China and Belarus share an “all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership”, with bilateral trade exceeding US$8.8 billion. China serves as an important economic partner for Belarus, as Western sanctions have prompted Minsk to pivot its trade from the European Union towards Beijing. China is Belarus’s second-largest trading partner after Russia, with Belarus exporting raw commodities and agricultural goods while importing high-value Chinese technology, vehicles, and electronics. Lukashenko is also expected to visit Indonesia, which has a free trade agreement with Belarus via the Eurasian Economic Union.
