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China Pledges '$46m To Build Zimbabwe's Parliament. by Biafra1000: 1:05pm On Aug 03, 2016 |
Zimbabwe and China have signed an agreement
worth $46 million as part of the first tranche of
funds for the construction of the new Parliament
Building in Mt Hampden. The agreement was
signed by Macro Economic Planning and
Investment Promotion Minister here during a
meeting on the follow-up to the implementation
of various projects being carried out by the
Chinese.
This came as Chinese Foreign Minister Mr Wang
Yi told the same meeting that Zimbabwe was
among six countries in Africa with which the
Asian economic giant had signed framework
agreements for production capacity cooperation.
The meeting that was attended by more than 100
government ministers from African countries, was
a follow-up to the Johannesburg summit of the
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (Focac) held
last year.
Minister Mpofu told The Herald last week that
apart from funding for the new Parliament
Building, more agreements would be signed with
China in agriculture and housing under the
Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement.
He was leading a delegation to the meeting made
up of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation
Development Minister Dr Joseph Made and Local
Government, Public Works and National Housing
Minister Saviour Kasukuwere.
“You know, Zimbabwe is an active member of
this organisation (Focac) and we have submitted
priority projects to be considered,” said Minister
Mpofu.
“We submitted projects that we feel are key under
our economic revival, that is agriculture, support
in agriculture, as well as support in housing.
Hence the presence of Minister Made and
Minister Kasukuwere to actually beef up our
delegation in arguing our case for the sup- port.”
Minister Mpofu said he had a long meeting with
Chinese Minister of Agriculture Mr Han Changfu
during which they discussed some of the
deals. “Among six or so projects that were
submitted, we have now centred on the two that I
mentioned and the discussions and engagement
that we have made so far are very encouraging,”
he said.
“We prioritised our initial submissions to deal
with agriculture and housing because any
economy can only be active if agriculture is
producing something. That is where the
sustenance of the economy is because
agriculture leads all other sectors of the economy
into boosting production.”
Minister Mpofu said his delegation, which also
included officials from the President’s Office,
Finance, Foreign Affairs, Environment, Water and
Climate and Industry and Commerce, was also in
China to review progress on all mega projects
being undertaken by the Asian country in
Zimbabwe.
China signed deals worth billions of dollars with
Zimbabwe in various sectors in the last two
years mostly in infrastructure such as energy and
power, rail, roads and housing. Some of the
deals like the expansion of Hwange Thermal
Power Station by Sino-Hydro are already being
implemented, while the paperwork is in progress
for others.
Also addressing the same meeting, Minister
Wang said Zimbabwe was among the six
countries that had signed production capacity
cooperation agreements with China. “We have
signed framework agreements for production
capacity cooperation with six countries including
Ethiopia, Egypt, Nigeria and Zimbabwe,” he said.
“A significant number of large-scale
infrastructure projects in rail, road, port, airport,
electricity, water supply and telecommunications
are well under- way.” Mr Wang said there was
need to keep momentum on the cooperation
agreements between China and African countries
to fast-track the implementation process.
China has also donated emergency food aid to 14
African countries, including Zimbabwe, affected
by the El Nino-induced drought, Chinese Minister
of Commerce Mr Gao Hucheng also told the
delegates. |
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