Expropriation for construction of heating plant for needs of project of Serbian-Chinese Industrial Park Mihajlo Pupin to follow

For months, there has barely been any mention of the project of the Serbian-Chinese Industrial Park Mihajlo Pupin in Borca. The most recent concrete news about the park dates back to last October, when the minister of domestic and foreign trade of Serbia, Tomislav Momirovic, pointed out that the continuation of the project would be oriented toward the field of information and communications technologies, enabling the employment of young engineers from the field of IT and other sophisticated industries.

When things are to start moving forward on the site as well is still uncertain, but after more than ten months, one step toward concretizing the project has been made. At one of its latest sessions, the Government of Serbia adopted the decision determining the public interest for expropriation, that is, the administrative transfer of the real estate, to the end of the construction of the Mihajlo Pupin heating plant, in line with the Decree on Determining the Spatial Plan of the Special-Purpose Area for the Realization of the Project “Serbian-Chinese Industrial Park Mihajlo Pupin”.

The construction of this park, a project which is jointly realized by the Government of Serbia and China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), after they got, in a summary procedure, the green light from the Commission for Protection of Competition to jointly found a limited-liability company, has been announced by the highest state authorities for years. In 2018, the Ministry of Finance signed the agreement on the construction of this park with CRBC in Beijing. Then, in November 2019, those in charge announced that the construction of the industrial park in Borca should begin at the end of March 2020 and added that the financing of the project had been discussed at the meeting with representatives of the Bank of China, which had confirmed that it would finance all the companies arriving from China to the industrial park. However, the coronavirus pandemic followed.

As pointed out earlier, the realization of the Serbian-Chinese Industrial Park is expected to take a long time. According to the plans, the construction of the entire park is expected to be completed within 19 years.

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China Road and Bridge Corporation Serbia ogranak Beograd

JKP Beogradske Elektrane Beograd

Serbian Chinese Industrial Park Mihajlo Pupin

China Road and Bridge Corporation

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Heating Plant Mihajlo Pupin Belgrade

Tomislav Momirović

Spatial Plan of the Special Purpose Area for the Realization of the Project Serbian Chinese Industrial Park Mihajlo Pupin