Angola News – China will continue to support the construction of Angola’s main social and economic infrastructures, said its ambassador to Angola, Gongu Tao, this Thursday in Luanda.
According to ANGOP, the diplomat, who was speaking to the press at the end of the meeting with the President of the National Assembly, Carolina Cerqueira, referred that his country will support the construction of major infrastructures, such as the New Luanda International Airport, in the final stages of completion, of the Caculo Cabaça Hydroelectric Center, in the province of Cuanza, North, “among other works that are in good progress”.
The diplomat also assured that China will increase its investments in Angola in the areas of industry, agriculture, fisheries and mineral exploration, to give a greater boost to Angola’s socio-economic development and increase in jobs.
“We made a positive assessment of our bilateral relations, a strategic partnership relationship that has always been consolidated and deepened over the last few years, even with the challenges of combating Covid-19 in which the two countries have been hand in hand, supporting one another. another, to overcome the epidemic”, he stressed.
He recalled that a large number of Chinese companies had invested in Angola, making an important contribution to the diversification and industrialization of the economy.
Gong Tao also said that he had discussed with his interlocutor the need for the two countries to combine efforts to promote peace, stability and development in the African continent and in the world.
He congratulated President João Lourenço for being named “Champion of the African Union (AU) for Peace and Reconciliation”, at the Extraordinary Summit on Terrorism and Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Africa, held on 28 May 2022, in Malabo, Guinea- Equatorial.
“I am very much in awe of Angola’s mediation role for peace in the Great Lakes region”, said the diplomat who also took the opportunity to congratulate the president of the AN, Carolina Cerqueira, for organizing, in October this year, in Luanda, of the 147th General Assembly of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU).
He also expressed the need to intensify the exchange of experiences between delegations from the parliaments of both countries.
On January 12, 1983, China and Angola established diplomatic relations, opening a new chapter in the history of traditional friendship between the two countries.