Comoran President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi Thursday visited a well-known
food enterprise, Wahaha Group Co., Ltd. in Hangzhou, capital of the economically
booming Zhejiang Province in east China.
Sambi arrived in Beijing on
Tuesday for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on the China-Africa Cooperation
scheduled for November 4-5.
Having been a businessman before, Sambi paid
attention to seeking more business opportunities in China. He showed interest in
the beverage products of Wahaha and invited the enterprise to cooperate with
Comoran companies to develop more products.
Xi Jinping, secretary of the
Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, briefed Sambi on
Zhejiang's economic and social development, saying its GDP is ranking the fourth
among the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China and the per
capita GDP has reached 3,300 U.S. dollars.
The private business sector
is enjoying a fast growth in the province, and their products are encouraged to
enter the international market, Xi said, noting "We hope to develop a good trade
relationship with Comoros and other African countries."
Sambi invited
Zhejiang's business people to invest and build factories in his country and then
export their products to other places in Africa, as he termed it as a good deal
for both sides.
Before coming back to attend the Beijing Summit, the
president is expected to proceed to visit Yiwu, China's largest distribution
center for small commodities.
China and Comoros forged diplomatic ties
in November, 1975, and bilateral trade totaled 1.83 million U.S. dollars in
2005.
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing visited Comoros in 2004,
while former Comoran President Azali Assoumani paid a visit to China in
2003.
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