China donates equipment worth $10m to Georgia

China has donated modern irrigation equipment worth more than $10 million USD to Georgia. 

A total of 245 pieces of equipment, including excavators, trucks, bulldozers, concrete mixers, off-road vehicles, tractors and more, were named on a list that was granted to Georgia’s Agriculture Ministry yesterday by the Chinese side. The total value of the equipment reached of $10,764,000.

Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili thanked the Government of China for its valuable support and said this equipment would be used for ongoing irrigation works.

A total of 245 items were granted to Georgia's Agriculture Ministry from China.

Furthermore, Garibashvili expressed delight and satisfaction about a cooperation project titled ‘Vegetable Cultivation Technology in Georgia’, which was signed between Georgia and China on November 18, 2014. The two-year project aimed to increase Georgia’s cultivation of herbs and implement new technologies as a way to stimulate the agricultural industry.

Within the project more than 30 greenhouses will be built in Marneuli district in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia.

Georgia’s Prime Minister emphasised that Chinese investments were increasing in Georgia, and Georgia had been given a possibility to fulfil its historic function of linking Europe to Asia.

"Both countries are interested in deepening trade and economic relations. Georgia has a chance to link Europe and Asia and we should use this chance. Restoring the historic Silk Road is a new impulse which unites the countries from Europe to China under a unified trade system. We are involved in this process and it is vital for us today to deepen relations with China,” Garibashvili said.