The collaboration between Cuba and China He has reported at least about 200 million dollars to the Caribbean nation, according to Cuban authorities, who advanced the claim of both parties to create a digital hospital on the island.
Vice Prime Minister Eduardo Martínez Díaz, who is visiting the Asian country, said that Havana has entered that amount “thanks to the bonds of friendship and mutual help between the two countries,” According to review The newspaper Granma.
His statements were made during the opening of a biopharmaceutical research institute of the Cuban-China Biotech Pharmaceutical Company, in the city of Changzhi, which was described by Martínez Díaz as “a milestone for joint research”.
The official report does not detail the sources of the informed income or sources: if they refer to that mixed company, to the collaboration in the medical and biotechnological sector, or all bilateral cooperation.
Instead, it ensures that such income has been used “fundamentally, to acquire raw materials for the production of medicines in the country, as well as boost research and development projects”, without offering more details about it.
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Medicines for Cuba
As explained by the Cuban official, more than 10 Chinese facilities – some of the Asian country and other mixed country – “are manufacturing genetic products to use them in our basic medication picture.”
Martínez Díaz did not specify which medicines or its components would be produced right now in China for Cuba, although days ago-during the visit of President Díaz-Canel to that nation-it transpired that in a plant in the city of Wuhan, 81 milligrams began to produce for the Cuban population.
The intention, as stated thenis to manufacture more than 100 million tablets in a first stage and meet next year the demand of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsap) of the island.
In his profile in X, the Vice Chief of Government reported Tuesday that He had met with Chinese entrepreneurs suppliers of medicines, raw materials and other medical supplies for the MINSAP and the Biocubafarma Group, and both parties agreed “Work more accelerated to send these products to Cuba to improve their coverage ”on the island.
Sustained meeting with Chinese businessmen suppliers of medicines, raw materials and other medical supplies for the @MINSAPCUBA and @Biocubafarma. We agreed to work more accelerated to send these products to Cuba to improve their coverage in the health system. pic.twitter.com/8fqutjod
– Eduardo Martínez Díaz (@edmartdiaz) SEPTEMBER 9, 2025
A digital hospital and other projects
As for the announced digital hospital, Granma He barely reports that he would be on the island, and that Cuba and China agreed to work in their creation “for the next stage” of their collaboration.
The publication does not detail when that stage would begin, nor what time could the hospital start up.
Nor does it offer details about the project, what its digital nature consists of – if it refers only to medical technology or also includes other components of care for the patients – and how it would be integrated into a health system weighed down by the lacks and other difficulties derived from the economic crisis and the lack of financing in the country.
Finally, the report points out – considering Martínez Díaz – that bilateral collaboration has also encompassed “the integral management of solid waste”, as well as “projects related to telecommunications and telemedicine”.
Cuba negotiates with China restructuring its bank, financial and business debts
Cuba and China are political allies with close relations in various sectors and a large group of agreements signed in recent years.
Recently, the Cuban president visited Beijing as part of a tour of Asia and met with his counterpart Xi Jinping, after which a joint statement was issued where they ensure that bilateral links are “at their best.”
In addition, during that visit, new agreements were signed and It transcended that the Cuban government is negotiating with the Chinese authorities the restructuring of its debts.
