President Hakainde Hichilema hosted a high-level Chinese trade and investment delegation at State House, underscoring Zambia’s commitment to deepening economic cooperation with China.
The delegation was led by Mr. Wei Zhang, Chairman of Anhui Machinery Group Company, and Mr. Yongsheng Wang, Deputy General Manager of CRRC Yangtze Group Trading Tongling Company. They were accompanied by Zambia’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Ivan Zyuulu.
The visit follows the recent elevation of Zambia-China relations to a Comprehensive Strategic and Cooperative Partnership, signaling a new chapter in bilateral collaboration.
In a statement, President Hichilema emphasized that Zambia remains guided by its foreign policy pillars of peace, security, and economic diplomacy. He reaffirmed the government’s dedication to attracting affordable capital and cutting-edge technology through mutually beneficial joint ventures.
“Our goal is to drive value addition, stimulate economic growth, and create meaningful employment for our people,” said President Hichilema.
The Chinese delegation expressed strong interest in investing in Zambia’s energy, railway transport, and mining sectors, areas identified as critical to the country’s long-term development.
President Hichilema welcomed this interest, affirming Zambia’s readiness to engage in close collaboration to unlock investment opportunities in these key industries.
We need to start seeing results of these numerous business interactions. We’ve talked enough…!
Kanshi, is Zambia the only country in the world where the more investment you bring in the worse your national currency performs?
What formula are these guys at the Ministry of Finance using?
If this is the case then it’s better not to have investors. Because nothing they are bring to the economy except inflation and high forex demand.
Chinese and poor salaries. Shame even to talk to them.
Yes they will give you below average salaries. But when you refuse them they take production to their own country where salaries are low. Low because their cost of living is very low
They want Africa and they slowly getting there
Prof Clive [Chirwa] made some suggestions but was let go under a flurry of Eurobond sagas! So we can only progress if someone else is holding the purse strings very tightly?
We have had delegation in the past from different countries.Can we see some benefits?
We have just been told that we got so much
Aid from a country but nothing is seen on the
Ground.
Ba Lee ,Noti vo ndyelana masuku pamutu naise tifuna ma half
Enough of these nonsensical meetings. Can we see some development please …what happened to the Saudi Arabia delegation meetings….where are the results???….just fooling gullible praise singers and your 5 year term is almost over not even a single project
Why do Ministers wait for someone to open car doors for them…like seriously and why we call them Honorable …what Honorable thing do they do apart from stealing and wasting tax payers money
Very well said, we should remove the tag of Honourable from all govt positions. Why do we call these crooks regardless of their party Honourable? Alot of them have in the past been proven to be crooks, Honorable Sampa, Honorable Kambwili, Honorable Munkumbwe, Honorable Mwaanga, Honorable Lungu….Zoona fonze ni ma labashi…and the same applies to even Councillors and Mayors!
They sleep in front of their boss. Honorable?
Perhaps we should call them the railway party.
What do you call a party of sleepers?
I like this
Kkkkkkkk This party should hold its convention in Kabwe!
People……people…….
Be aware , employment is at record levels , that’s why you see so many foreigners in Zambia……….
Those foreign investments thus far, most have not yet started making profits……..,,
Your results to see is the jobs created, unless you were expecting free handouts
FED2031
Which people will believe that? Those nepotistically appointed into office by HH? Who are contributing zilch to the economy but sucking it dry. Parasitic leeches?
Yes, record levels of tribal appointments
Gary Nkombo’s kazen
Your relatives are all lazy thieves , just looking to steal and handout……..
That’s why they can’t work or find jobs……..
You just have useless people
FWD2031
I am sorry but employment is not at record levels The record that can honestly be claimed
IS LOADSHEDDING IS THE WORSED SINCE INDEPEPENDANCE. HH said recently max 7 hrs
but its turned out to the opposite
PLS stop singing when there are no lyrics m8
Badala……..jobs are are at a high…….
Unless you are lazy and can’t work , then you won’t work…….
Low water levels in kariba are climatic , nothing anyone can do, apart from …….
Diversify into solar , which is happening at pace ……,
We are here
FWD2031
Iwe chi Spaka jobs are at a high in yours and HH’s backyard?
Why are there Riots erupting in Chingola right now?
Why are unemployed youths raiding the open pit if there are jobs mbwee?
Stop hallucinating like your president who still thinks the Kwacha is gaining after his fake election.
Jobs are plenty my people…….
Unless you can’t work or you are lazy………
Those graduates who can’t find work , mostly are looking for white collar jobs………
You usually start at the bottom as a graduate and prove yourself, working up, that is…….
If you can take the low entrance salary, it is bettter than nothing, in any case, look at it like this……..
You have entered the company, at a low pay, it is time to get experience and prove yourself………
But most of them can’t work. The problem is they have no interest in the field they were trained in and are looking to get rich….…
I know many young graduates, I know what I’m talking about
FWD2031
How do you start at the bottom when 12 years of school and four years of university have prepared/conditioned you for the top?
In other words “you can take a horse to the river but……..”
The people you are taking to free education school aren’t drinking anything there.
When chairman Mao took Chinese children to school it was to coach them in self belief! “We can do everything by ourselves”
Not like you, wanna-be-Europeans, to make them admire colonialists! Not to make them wear European neckties and jackets like HH……. and white wigs in courts. Certainly not to make them think that their world revolves around Europe. Look at the fruits China is now reaping. They are the number 1 economy. They have a space station they are on the moon. While you move around with your begging plates
Chimbwi same plan like PF Aka anonymous
Africans in general have no passion for their chosen field ……..
If only we could show the kind of passion we show in church , at work , we would a fully developed
FWD2040
They are not “honorable”. That’s a tag they give themselves and are forced to use by the Speaker in parliament.. We aren’t obligated to call them that.
However, the media in their efforts to bootlick government officials, smuggle the title into their reports. Not even during the authoritarianism of the second republic did we do this.
Go to Kingsland and see how the locals are
Treated compared to slant eyes
Where is this Kingsland?
So his western masters have deserted him ka. China is always plan B for Zambian presidents.
Zambia is not slave to one master like under PF………
Zambia deals with who ever offers the best deal……….
FWD2040
HH tells the Chinese delegates that Zambia will in the next few days end loadshedding. If I were him I would keep quiet until it materializes.
He wants to copy Ramaphosa’s miracle but just cant find the magic wand. It is hidden in South Africas Ministry of electricity and energy
I still don’t understand why some people still believe in such a failed project like UPND. The economic statistics tell it all. For clarity and avoidance of doubt, we voted for K50 mealie meal, K12 fuel , K250 fertiliser and an exchange rate which was to drop on the day of being sworn in. We did not vote for free education which comes with the common man struggling daily.
My queston to you, is it the whole of UPND or is it the man at the top who wants to do it all himself and take the glory and is unable to control his underlings
Routine meetings. No impact on the ground. But with such a disorganised opposition, you still stand a chance Sir
That chance has come and gone
Where are Zambia’s own trade and investment delegations to Kenya ,Angola ,Mozambique or Malawi? If we’re always the ones always receiving delegations …it means we’re always under the thumbs of others.
@Enka- Zambia has these delegations every day across the globe. They are one man delegations. I’m sure you see him flying all over and doing nothing in a plane called Presidential Jet.
HH is not an industrialist , a banker ,a CEO of Zambian corporation or an inventor.It is our skilled people in these areas to up their game of productivity and innovativeness …then HH can lead them in trade delegations.Tis like a coach leading his team to Uganda …if they’re not skilled then its all fruitless.
Even in USA or Japan its not the president that makes Ford,Toyota ,Google or Hitachi inventive and productive..its the regulars .But in Zambia we only know how to run Tuntembas .
Ba Mlevi understand that great leaders plan for the future by working on the present. They shift mindsets so that citizens dont perceive themselves negatively. This shift is by introducing educational reforms(Like Kaunda did) that bring out the potential in citizens. The negative perceptions rely heavily on what you are taught at school as a youngster. School education that emphasises foreign (or European) achievements can leave an entire population with negative complexes like the inferiority complex.
The inferiority complex manipulates your mind to think that progress is manufactured abroad by another race of people. It is the political leaders who introduce reforms(Kaunda Nyerere, Chairman Mao, Lenin all did this) and prepare socio-structures in industry (for inventions), economy, management to benefit from the liberated school graduates. Niye leadership.Some of us are products of this and that is why we are expecting new leadership to continue where Kaunda left off. That is what Deng Xiao Ping did when he took over from Mao