President Hakainde Hichilema concluded a productive day of engagements with a key meeting alongside the Xinjiang Uyghur regional leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The meeting, led by Mr. Ma Xingrui, Secretary of the CPC Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regional Committee, focused on enhancing the longstanding bilateral relations between Zambia and China.
During the meeting, President Hichilema expressed his gratitude to President Xi Jinping and the people of China for their unwavering support and friendship over the past 60 years. He highlighted the strong foundation laid by Zambia’s founding leader, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, and Chairman Mao Zedong, which has fostered enduring cooperation between the two nations.
“We remain indebted to the people of China for the Tanzania-Zambia Railways (TAZARA), which continues to play a pivotal role in facilitating trade beyond our borders,” President Hichilema remarked, acknowledging one of the most significant infrastructural projects symbolizing Sino-Zambian cooperation.
The Zambian leader also emphasized the importance of continued collaboration in education, noting the additional scholarships offered by China for Zambian students. He urged the CPC leadership to encourage Chinese nationals to explore investment opportunities in various sectors of Zambia’s economy, further strengthening the economic ties between the two nations.
“We are grateful for the support that has benefited our people, and we look forward to even greater collaboration in the years to come,” President Hichilema concluded.
The engagement underscored the commitment of both nations to deepening their partnership, building on decades of shared history and mutual support.
If you won’t sort out Loadsheding then your Presidency is a total failure…..stop traveling for photo shoot
Is he aware we are in trouble as every whee he goes there’s 24 hour power
and zeso top bosses sitting comfortable in their offices
Mofo HH does not make rain. Furthermore, what little electricity is being produced is going to pay the US $32 billion in foreign loans your relatives Michael Satan and Edgar Lungu got and looted. Stealing has consequences
Look at the entourage….just wasting tax payers money…if you have a serious and hardworking Minister of Energy then he can go to China and find a suitable partner to help with Electricity crisis….and by the way what happened to the US$ 5 billion General Electric deal….so it was just beans
He is going to drum up business for the country. Your kind went to China to get loans which, in your nature, you then stole, leaving Zambia in the US $32 billion unpayable debt trap it is now in. What little good came from those loans went to building universities in your villages, which we will pay, since you produce nothing where you come from. Do us a favour and shut your trap
By the way, how is the debt restructuring going? Are still on course or just another pot of beans. We have hard 7 presidents by never have Zambians been exposed to such incompetence.
Which debt restructuring?
Thank God ZEDIANS can now see for who really they are. They went for their personal shopping, they will come with GUCCIs etc.
We are not like you. We do not steal. When the time comes, we will use our hard and honestly earned money to go and shop on our own time. We are not like Christine Kaseba, who was illegally given a government budget, which she looted on trips to New York, where, thankfully, Micheal Satan started his downward spiral into a long overdue death
The problem here is that it is leaders who travel to learn but do they? They travel to shop and get paid per diems. Each of the members of the team will get no less than $500 per day while there. When they return, they will buy houses for $50,000 from the previous empty bank accounts. Xi has never come to Zambia, but grassroot Chinese people have become millionaires in Zambia, while grass-root Zambians have never gone to China to get rich.
HH does not take money of any kind from the government. What money this government is using, as has been the case with every government since the collapse of copper prices in the early 1980s, comes from Southern, Lusaka and Northwestern Provinces. Why are you complaining? What have they taken from you? We who earn the money they are using are not complaining.
Can anyone name one treaty that Zambia has signed with China that has benefited the man from Muyombe, the child from Shangombo or the woman from Siavonga? Scholarships are preferentially distributed among the apamwamba families or party cadres. This has been the case since independence.
And the same way Zambians were duped by the so called ” bebt restructuring they’re being fooled again…..HH IS ALL TALK NO SUBSTANCE….nothing will come out of this trip apart from shopping and huge allowances
Whe serious people are working they work in silence . …abakali tabalanda….HH IS JUST PRETENDING LIKE HE IS WORKING…..and next stop UN General Assembly for the annual pilgrimage
We in the South paid (10 000 cows) for Kaunda to go to England to negotiate peace with the government. We paid the expenses of Zambia alone after the prices of copper prices collapsed around 1980s, and have been paying since. Recently, Northwestern Province has joined us. You contribute nothing. Why are you complaining about the president going to China to drum up business for the country? You never said anything when Michael Satan and Edgar Lungu went on joy rides at our expense, borrowed and looted US $32 billion in foreign loans, which you probably will not paying anything of
In the USA….Electricity is managed by private companies and they manage it very well…..zero corruption and zero theft….
You are right. Private companies run the utilities but they were BUILT by the GOVT!
Your kind sold the mines to private Boer and Indian companies, what good has came out of it? Your kind allowed Boers to loot Lamba emeralds, how did Zambia benefit? Your kind sold yourselves maize milling companies, and gave yourselves government houses, leaving councils bankrupt and having to tax poor people.. Privatise electricity? So now you think we are going to let you steal the generation of electricity in Southern Province..in the name of privatisation??? You must think we are stupid. You have not lived in the US long enough to know of the horrors people have suffered from the private companies PP&G in California, TXU in Texas, whose antiquated powergrids often fail under load, leading to the deaths of people from the resulting cold or heat.
ZESCO SAYING RESIDENTS TO GET 3 HOURS A DAY ???
THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIRS ?????????
Can Zesco create rain? Can you wipe out the US $32 billion, that your relative Michael Satan and Edgar Lungu borrowed and stole, that ZESCO now must payback?
What HH is doing is simply buying time just like any other Politician…so during 2026 campaigns he will say he started projects that still needs to be completed and he will ask for 5 more years…..and this is how they trick voters….a
HH will win the 2026 campaign unless there is another drought.
Have you noticed that the chief praise singer Lumbani madoda Spaka is now on mute….yabija makani….lies have short legs…they danced about debt restructuring which was just hot air….
I will be having a good laugh at your comments in 2025 after the good upcoming 2024/2025 rainy season and completion of the Zambia-Tanzania power inter-connector.
Imagine the position HH and the UPND in 2026.
1) Plenty of rains in the 2024/25 and 2025/26 rainy seasons
2) Two bumper harvests
3) Two more years of CDF driven rural development.
etc etc.
Exactly. To say nothing of the fact that this will be the first time these other characters will not be able to rig, or make nefarious deals with the even more nefarious Kagame, to give them money for election campaigns, in exchange for letting Rwandese Hutu flood Zambia
WHILST WE ALL COMPLAINING
What Alternative do we have I dont see any
Enligten me please
This man that held so much hope is nothing but an Aviator, tribalist, incomptent, name it.
The government of HH is the most tribally balanced governments since Kaunda’s. Chiluba, Lungu and Sata brought Kapwepwe’s tribalism to life in Zambia, where they fired all the Lozi, Luvale and Tonga from the government, and army. Chiluba gave the mines, land and industry to white foreigners, arab homosexuals and Indian swindlers because in the typical manner of an illiterate, he believed that these people were superior and would give his kind of Zambians from honey and manna. Lungu and Sata were even worse, continuing the tribalism, and borrowing US $32.5 billion and leaving Zambia in a debt that Southern, Northwestern and Central will never able to repay, since they are the ones which produce everything.
Zambia depend on rain water to produce electricity and rain is not manufactured by a human being like the way some of the people commenting above are thinking. This kindly of poor thinking is worring, that is why I keep on saying allowing these chawama group to be in power they will even blame someone for the sun setting at 18:00 hours. Please those who have been to school let us think carefully change the constitution like below for anyone aspiring to be in leadership including councellors:
(1) Full grade Certificate or GCE with atleast one credit(grade 6) , two merits (grade 3) and three distinctions(grade 2) in six subjects
(2) Bachelor’s degree in any field from a recognized university NOT that one from Matero
(3) Proven track record of running a sound business
Hahahahahahahaha……………..good one, wait no comment
And they have Jito Kayumba making videos with drones….thats s sign that UPND is just blowing hot air…like i said serious people work in silence but if you want to justify what you’re doing by making drone videos then you’re just fooling around….” If you spend one hour explaining what you have done then you have done nothing…when you do something you shut up and the work speaks for itself”
Am a Patriotic Zambian and i really want things to improve in Zambia and HH should stop fooling Zambians and get down to some serious work like Ibrahim Traore of Bukina Faso
Hakainde is a very slow learner. If he was a fast learner we would have made headways economically by now. It is good that he is only the 7th president of Zambia, otherwise if he came earlier than KK we would still be riding cauchcarts. Hakainde must stop these talk shows and work. This foolish law of “ proceeds of crime” is a very stupid law that gives long hands to rude boys to oppress their political opponents. Of all the 20million Zambians only Hakainde can afford to build community house from hard earned money and not proceeds of crime??
Is it just me or have you guys noticed the smiles on African Presidents whenever they go to Europe, USA or China….especially when they’re posing for pictures with Western leaders….i just saw Ramaphosa with a huge smile whilst taking pictures in China….smile is understatement or should I just say ” huge grin”….don’t you think they look stupiddd