Mozambican PM Calls for Closer Economic Ties with China

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Mozambican PM Calls for Closer Economic Ties with China

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Visiting Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi called here Thursday for more Chinese enterprises to cooperate with their Mozambican counterparts in infrastructure construction, mining and fishing in his country.

Mocumbi made the remarks while addressing the China-Mozambique Business Seminar sponsored by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Thursday.

China and Mozambique were "old friends", sharing "a very strong and lasting friendship", he said.

Mozambique was a gateway to the hinterlands of southern Africa,and its Indian Ocean waters were rich in fish and prawns, Mocumbi said.

Infrastructure construction such as railways, roads, and telecommunications were priorities of the Mozambican government, he said, and Chinese enterprises were welcome to participate in mineral exploration and agricultural industrialization, the prime minister said.

Mozambique was a net importer of transport and electrical equipment, machinery, petroleum products and medicines. It would be profitable for Chinese enterprises to set up relevant ventures there, Mocumbi said.

Yu Xiaosong, president of the CCPIT, said at the seminar that since China and Mozambique formed diplomatic ties in 1975, the two countries had organized high-level exchanges, cooperated in economic, technological and cultural fields and established sound economic and political relations.

Two-way trade between China and Mozambique hit 33 million US dollars worth in 2001. The increasing visits between business people of the two nations would help increase bilateral trade, Yu said.

Mocumbi arrived in Beijing Thursday for an eight-day working visit to China.

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