Lithuania invites China to benefit from tourism opportunities

Published: 24 November 2009 y., Tuesday

Miško keliukas
Tourism opportunities in Dzūkija Region of Lithuania and other issues of incoming tourism promotion were the main topics of the meeting of the Mixed Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Lithuania.

During the meeting on 23 November in Vilnius, bilateral economic and trade issues, as well as the possibilities of cooperation in agriculture, transport, development of industrial parks, public and private partnership projects and the promotion of business relations were discussed.

The facilities for leisure and medical treatment in Dzūkija Region were introduced to the Chinese delegation on 22 November, during the meeting with the Deputy Mayor of Druskininkai Kristina Miškinienė and the visit to the Health Resort Druskininkai and Druskininkai Aqua Park.

Chinese representatives also visited the Liškiava Monastery Ensemble, a countryside tourism homestead in Druskininkai municipality and Trakai.

The 10th Meeting of the Mixed Intergovernmental Commission was chaired by Director of External Economic Relations Department of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Albinas Zananavičius. Chinese delegation was led by Deputy Director-General of European Department of the Ministry of Commerce Xu Xiaofeng.

The Mixed Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Lithuania was established under the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on Trade and Economic Cooperation, signed on 30 January 1992. Commission meetings are held every two years.
 
 

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