Industrial Park is a special areaallotted for placing new productions on it. In addition, there is the necessary infrastructure, energy supply is organized, and all administrative and legal conditions for doing business are created.
Managed by an industrial park specialized company.
One of such industrial sites, where Chinese companies will place their production, will be created in Belarus. Its location is Smolevichi district, Minsk region.
Project history
The idea of creating an industrial zone in whichChinese industrial companies will operate, advanced the Ministry of Commerce of China. The Celestial Empire already has a similar experience. So, the Sino-Singapore project was created in February 1994. This industrial park is located in the city of Suzhou (Iziansu province).
Белорусская делегация, состоящая из representatives of the Ministry of Economy, in 2010, visited this industrial park and got acquainted with its work. Immediately after the trip, business meetings took place. Prime Minister of Belarus S. Sidorsky held talks with the leaders of China’s largest company, Sinomach, and with representatives of its subsidiary structure, the CAMCE engineering corporation. Businessmen expressed willingness to invest in a new project.
That will be created Chinese-BelarusianThe industrial park, the agreement says, signed in autumn 2010, was approved by representatives of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus and the leaders of the CAMCE corporation. A year later, an intergovernmental agreement was signed, which entered into force on January 30, 2012.
Условия, в которых будет работать The Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park is described in the Decree of the President of Belarus, which was published on June 5, 2012. And in August of the same year a new CAO was created. He was called the "Industrial Park Development Company". The statutory fund of this organization is 10 million dollars. Its founders from the Chinese side is the CAMSE company (60%). From Belarus - JSC Horizon (10%) and the Minsk City Executive Committee (30%).
Geographical location
Sino-Belarus Industrial Park on the mapBelarus plans to build only 25 km from the capital. This Smolevichi district, which has a favorable geographical position. 8048 hectares of land located between the National Airport and the Petrikov reservoir are allocated for the construction of an industrial park. Not far from the planned facility is the railway and the Moscow-Berlin highway. But not only this territory is attractive for business. Its advantage is the relatively short (500 km) distance to the port of Klaipeda, located on the Baltic Sea coast.
Name change
Китайско-Белорусский индустриальный парк - это the facility, the construction of which provided for an intergovernmental agreement between the Republic of Belarus and the PRC. This name remained with him until July 1, 2014. That is, until the release date of the new Decree of the President of Belarus No. 326. The newly adopted legislative act changed the name of the ambitious project. “The Great Stone” is the name for this industrial zone under construction. This name was given to the park by a Belarusian village located on its territory.
Project implementation
Строительство Китайско-Белорусского industrial park has already begun. On June 19, 2014, the ceremony of ceremonial laying of the first stone was held, marking the beginning of the construction of the object. The event was attended by top managers of many Chinese world-class companies. Among them were representatives of such companies as CAMC, ZTE, Lenovo Group Limited and others.
Economy
In order to build a new infrastructureof the industrial park of the Republic of Belarus plans to allocate cash from its budget in the amount of 0.5 billion US dollars. The state development bank of China will provide three times more. He will allocate an amount equal to one and a half billion US dollars.
Планируются и значительные поступления прямых investment. They should be about five and a half billion dollars. In addition, investors from Singapore and Russia will take part in the project. According to experts, approximately $ 30 billion will be spent on the implementation of the plan.
Control
The supreme body that determines the policy of cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the PRC is the Intergovernmental Coordination Council. This is the first link in the three-level park management structure.
To implement the project was created andAdministration of the Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park (headed by Alexander Yermak). She is directly subordinate to the Government of the Republic of Belarus. Its main task is the implementation of various administrative procedures. This institution provides comprehensive maintenance of the facility in accordance with the principles of “one window” and represents the interests of the park in local government and state administration. The administration of the park "Great Stone" on the basis of the approved Charter.
The third link of the new management systemproject is CZAO. It is called the “Industrial Park Development Company”. Its main tasks are to ensure the design and construction of infrastructure, the organization of public services, the implementation of transactions related to land plots located within the designated area. The park administration, as well as the management company, was established in August 2012.
Major projects
The main areas of activity defined for residents of the industrial zone, which will be contained in the Chinese-Belarusian industrial park, are:
- materials and medical equipment;
- engineering;
- pharmaceutics, biotechnology, fine chemistry;
- optics;
- electrical and Electronics;
- other directions.
The main focus of all projects is oncompetitive and high-tech production, as well as modern management. In addition, it is planned to attract foreign corporations that manufacture products of famous world brands.
Benefits of doing business
Companies of any country can become residents of CBIP. The main thing is that the direction of their business is consistent with those that will be conducted in the "Great Stone".
Becoming a resident of the park, the company will receive benefitscalculated by the formula "10 + 10". In other words, she does not have to pay corporate taxes for the first 10 years. They will need to be calculated at a rate of 50% over the next decade. In addition, the company will open its production in a favorable geographical area with convenient for business transport corridors. At the same time, it will have the opportunity to sell its goods duty-free in the market of countries that have created the Common Economic Space, and transport them to nearby Western Europe.
First residents
Already in 2015, the park will beginerecting productions of such giant corporations as ZTE and Huawei. The first of these two companies is going to organize the release of communications, and the second will rely on innovative software development and promotion.
