At the business forum jointly organised by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency (HITA), State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chinese industrial group Wanhua, owner of Hungarian chemical raw material manufacturing company BorsodChem. In additional, a number of other company agreements were concluded at the forum.
Following the meeting of the Chinese-Hungarian Joint Economic Committee in Beijing, State Secretary for External Economic Relations and the Committee's Co-chair Péter Szijjártó stressed that cooperation on agriculture and tourism has strengthened between the two countries.
At the meeting of the Chinese-Hungarian Joint Economic Committee in Beijing, Co-chair of the Committee Péter Szijjártó noted that Hungary is China’s top investment destination, its second largest import source as well as its third most important trading partner in the Central and Eastern European region.
Minister for Human Resources Zoltan Balog, representing Deputy Premier Zsolt Semjén, and Apostolic Nuncio Alberto Bottari de Castello on Monday exchanged the documents of an agreement signed between Hungary and the Holy See earlier.
Two days prior to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s official visit to China on Wednesday, the Chinese-Hungarian Joint Economic Committee is holding a session in Beijing.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will pay a visit to Beijing between February 11 and 13, where he will hold talks with Premier of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang and sign agreements between the two countries.
State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Péter Szijjártó met with Chairman of Vnesheconombank (VEB) Vladimir Dmitriev in Budapest and discussed the bank’s plans with Dunaferr.
Minister of State János Lázár held a two-and-a-half hour meeting with representatives of Hungarian Jewish communities today, within the framework of the Roundtable of Jewish Communities. Following the event, he addressed the press at a doorstep press conference.
A whole network of scientific research centres must be established so as to make Hungary a research and development hub as well as a manufacturing centre, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, addressing the ELI laser centre’s foundation stone laying ceremony in Szeged, South Hungary.
International media interest in Hungary intensified and the country's image in the foreign media improved overall last year compared to 2012, a report released on Thursday by the Nézőpont research institute shows. Deputy State Secretary for International Communications, Ferenc Kumin highlighted the positive tendencies in his presentation as well.