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Mozambique’s Industry and Trade Minister Ragendra de Sousa said on Saturday that China’s industrial activity has in Africa a “natural destination”, given the continent’s low population density and abundant resources.
“China’s industrial shift is being made to the African continent,” Ragendra de Sousa told Lusa news agency in Changsha, central China, where he attended the first China-Africa Trade and Economic Expo.
Welcome to the First China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo!?
Let’s take a quick view for the exhibition~#CAETE pic.twitter.com/aKQUMKewUN— Changsha Hunan (@ChangshaHunan) June 27, 2019
Recalling that the Asian country had “reached the (maximum) point of the industrialisation curve”, the minister considered that Africa is the “natural economic” destination for China to begin its process of “industrial displacement”.
“We have a lot of space and a low population density,” he argued.
At the start of the third China-Africa Cooperation Forum (FOCAC) summit in Beijing last September, Chinese President Xi Jinping set as goals for cooperation the areas of industry, agriculture, infrastructure, education and security .
Beijing has also pledged to launch, along with the African Union, a continental infrastructure connectivity project covering energy, transport, information, telecommunications and water resources.
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