President Nyusi on 5-day visit to China to promote economic cooperation

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President Nyusi on 5-day visit to China to promote economic cooperation

7:00 CAT | 15 May 2016

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President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique is expected in the Chinese capital, Beijing on Thursday for a five-day official visit at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping as part of his diplomatic offensive to court investors, APA can report here on Tuesday. A presidential statement said the Mozambican leader would meet with other Chinese officials and will travel to the provinces of Shandong and Jiangsu.

This would be the first official visit by Nyusi to Beijing since he became president of Mozambique, although he met President Xi Jinping in December 2015 in Johannesburg during the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation.

His office said the main objective on Nyusi’s tour of Asia was promotion of economic cooperation and is very important at a time when China is likely to strengthen the financial support granted to Mozambique following a retraction from other donors and international institutions.

In 2015, China became Mozambique’s largest bilateral creditor after increasing funding to the African country by 160 percent since 2012.

Last week China and Mozambique signed an economic and technical cooperation agreement under which the African country would receive US$16 million to fund drilling of 200 boreholes for drinking water, the purchase of 80 buses for public transport, construction of the China-Mozambique Cultural Centre and other projects of social impact to be agreed between the two governments.

Source: APA