Anhui farm project helps Zimbabwe’s agriculture
Updated: 2011-12-23 16:31
By Wang Ziwei and Ma Chenguang (China Daily Anhui Bureau)
Officers from Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Defense reaffirmed that the project
launched in Zimbabwe by Anhui Provincial State Farms Group of China, has
greatly enabled the development of local agriculture by increasing jobs,
mitigating food shortages, promoting food supplies and cultivating
professionals.
While meeting officials from East China’s Anhui province in Zimbabwe,
Zimbabwean Minister of Defense Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior officers
from the ministry spoke highly of the Sino-Zimbabwean agricultural program,
which was started in 2010, noting that the project was a success.
The Anhui-Zimbabwean Agricultural Co-operative Program has made great
contributions to increasing local employment, mitigating the provisions
crisis, promoting food supplies and cultivating professionals by leading
agricultural development in Zimbabwe, they noted while meeting Anhui
Vice-Governor Yu Xinrong, Anhui Provincial State Farms Group President Tian
Wenjun and other officials from Anhui.
“Anhui Provincial State Farms Group is a trusted partner with great
strength,” the minister added.
Yu, Tian, Anhui Provincial Agricultural Commission Director Zhang Huajian,
Anhui Provincial Finance Department Deputy Director Zhang Guangshou and
Anhui Provincial Foreign Affairs Office Inspector Sha Linsen led a
delegation to Zimbabwe to discuss further cooperation on the
Anhui-Zimbabwean program. Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Xin Shunkang also
attended the meeting.
Anhui Vice-Governor Yu and Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Xin both expressed
satisfaction in the program, affirming that Sino-Zimbabwean ties are
long-standing and well-established.
There are extensive Sino-Zimbabwean cooperative programs useful in
exploiting advantages for mutual benefit and development, realizing a
win-win goal and common prosperity, Yu said.
Tian Wenjun also expressed his thanks for the support by the Zimbabwean
Ministry of Defense and exchanged ideas on further cooperations. The two
sides signed a letter of intent on expanding cooperations.