Chinese investment in Serbia will be 10 bln dollars

Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Li Manchang said that Serbia used the opportunity to improve cooperation with China announcing that the total volume of Chinese investment in the current and announced projects will be 10 billion dollars.

"Some other countries in the Balkans have shown 'envy' towards Serbia, which took the opportunity to promote cooperation with China. I think that Serbia has taken the lead in this regard and that other European countries may follow this path," Li said in an interview for "China Daily".

It is, as he says, mainly due to the fact that the Serbian leadership understood the importance of the initiative "Belt and road", and the two sides in 2015 signed a memorandum of cooperation.

Li pointed out that the Prime Minister and newly elected President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and the current head of state, Tomislav Nikolic repeatedly stressed...