On Monday, China's ambassador to Ukraine, Ma Shengkun, signed a protocol in Kyiv with Ukrainian officials on inspection, quarantine, and sanitary requirements for Ukrainian wheat flour exports to China. The deal aims to broaden agricultural cooperation and enrich the strategic partnership between the two nations. Ukrainian officials hailed it as a boost to bilateral trade.
China's embassy in Kyiv announced on social media that on Monday, Ambassador Ma Shengkun signed the protocol with Ukrainian officials regarding inspection, quarantine, and sanitary requirements for wheat flour exports to China.
Ma stated that the agreement would broaden agricultural cooperation and enrich the "strategic partnership" between the two nations. He noted that the agricultural sectors of China and Ukraine are highly complementary, and China is willing to strengthen cooperation, which has significant potential to benefit people in both countries.
Ukraine’s deputy minister of economy, environment, and agriculture, Iryna Ovcharenko, said China is Ukraine’s top trading partner and a critical destination for its agricultural exports. She expressed confidence that the protocol would drive growth in bilateral trade, with Kyiv eager to increase the variety of agricultural products exported to China.
Serhii Tkachuk, head of the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection, said in a social media statement on Monday that the move was “not just about expanding export geography, but also about a qualitative transformation – a transition from a raw-material model to the export of finished goods”.
