{"id":43630,"date":"2022-09-06T17:44:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/belarus-to-expand-use-of-chinese-unionpay-cards-deputy-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"belarus-to-expand-use-of-chinese-unionpay-cards-deputy-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/43630\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus to expand use of Chinese UnionPay cards \u2013 deputy prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>September 6, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Belarus will be actively introducing international payment service UnionPay, First Deputy Prime Minister Mika\u0142aj Snapko\u016d said on September 6, after a meeting with Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka.<\/p>\n<p> Belarusian banks will also connect to CIPS, the Chinese analogue of SWIFT, Snapko\u016d added, as quoted by the government\u2019s press office.<\/p>\n<p> Finance is \u201cone of the fundamental components of cooperation with China,\u201d the senior official said. \u201cHere we work very actively and positively. We are shifting to yuan in our debt payments,\u201d he noted, apparently meaning Chinese dollar-denominated loans.<\/p>\n<p>According to Snapko\u016d, Belarus\u2019 exports to China \u201cincreased by 97 percent, and the balance of trade by almost $700 million\u201d in the first seven months of 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 6, BPN. Belarus will be actively introducing international payment service UnionPay, First Deputy Prime Minister Mika\u0142aj Snapko\u016d said on September 6, after a meeting with Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka. Belarusian banks will also connect to CIPS, the Chinese analogue of SWIFT, Snapko\u016d added, as quoted by the government\u2019s press office. Finance is \u201cone of the fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-43630","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Belarus to expand use of Chinese UnionPay cards \u2013 deputy prime minister | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 6, BPN. 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