{"id":481,"date":"2018-08-31T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefreezoneblog.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/31\/china-spurs-africas-industrialisation\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T11:23:00","slug":"china-spurs-africas-industrialisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/old\/china-spurs-africas-industrialisation\/","title":{"rendered":"China spurs Africa\u2019s industrialisation drive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBy Li Zhiwei<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nThe cooperation in industrialisation between China and Africa over the past three years has yielded rich fruits.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nSuch cooperation is a significant step to propel Africa\u2019s social development, economic transformation, and improvement of people\u2019s livelihood.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe results also constitute an impressive part of the positive progress both sides made from their efforts to implement the ten major China-Africa cooperation plans which were put forward three years ago.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nFor the period, African countries did not have a fairly integrated industrial system, thus making it hard to start up large-scale infrastructure projects.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nTheir economic structure usually become more vulnerable when faced with the price fluctuation of international commodities.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nAfrican leaders have been aware that they could not truly achieve economic transformation and economic independence without industrialization.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nAgainst the background, they have listed a long-term strategy in the Agenda 2063 of the African Union (AU) to accelerate Africa\u2019s economic transformation.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe continent also aimed to increase value it add to resources and people\u2019s income through industrialization process, especially the growth of manufacturing sector.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe sufficient labour and natural resources have put Africa in front of a broad prospect of win-win cooperation and common development with China, who has technologies, equipment, talents and capital needed for Africa to achieve its aim.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nIndustrialization is the only path for Africa\u2019s development, said Funeka Yazini April, a research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa, who also that China-Africa cooperation was a key to Africa\u2019s development.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\n\u201cChina built industrial parks in Africa to transfer technology, create jobs for the locals, and increase the added value of local products. There is no reason not to welcome China,\u201d said Namibian President Hage Geingob.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe priority China gives to Africa\u2019s industrialization has propel the latter to take a big stride to tackle its two major development bottlenecks \u00ad – backward infrastructure and talent shortage.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nChina\u2019s construction of standard gauge railway connecting landlocked Ethiopia to Djibouti has opened up traffic to freight and passenger, and witnessing a new vista in industrial corridor.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line, built and operated by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), a subsidiary of China Railway Construction Corp (CRCC), is also Africa\u2019s first and longest transnational electric railway.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nAfter Djibouti International Free Trade Zone was opened in early July, the China Merchants Group-backed zone has attracted over 20 African and Chinese enterprises to sign the letter of intent to enter the zone.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\n“The free trade zone would bring welfare to local people,\u2019\u2019 Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh noted.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nHe said the project would not only increase job opportunities, but also introduce the export processing industry to Djibouti and  the impetus for the growth of country\u2019s economy.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nIn Ethiopia, Chinese have engaged in the construction of the majority of the more than 10 new industrial parks led by local government.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe CCECC-built Hawassa Industrial Park, an emission-free zone with 52 standardized plants, has directly created nearly 20,000 jobs for locals.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe success of the park has not only greatly boosted the confidence of the Ethiopian government in industrialization drive, but also introduced the management experiences of Chinese companies on industrial park to Africa.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nChina-Africa industrialization cooperation has brought more and more tangible benefits to Africans.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe rural population on the continent is now flowing to manufacturing sector because of the factories and enterprises invested by Chinese companies.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nIn this March, a foundation-laying ceremony for the China-Africa Textile Company was held in Salima, 100 kilometres from Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe project makes the dream of changing Malawi economic model from import dependent to export- oriented county a reality.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nMalawian President Peter Mutharika, while extending his gratitude to China, noted that the textile mill would have a positive impact on the Malawian economy.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nHe said that products could be exported to neighbouring countries and international markets, and it would also improve living standards of the rural residents.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nWhere there are Chinese factories and projects, there are young Africans full of passion and energy. It is a situation commonly seen in more than 20 African countries.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe Huajian Shoe factory in Ethiopia, for instance, employs about 8,000 local workers, making it the country\u2019s largest employer of labour.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe Hebei Iron and Steel Group hires more than 2,400 workers in its steel plant in South Africa, with only eight Chinese employees.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe South Africa plant of Beijing Automotive Industry Corp (BAIC), a joint venture between BAIC and South Africa\u2019s state-owned Industrial Development Corp is another of such Chinese companies in Africa.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe plant, which was initiated in 2015, could produce 50,000 cars each year upon completion of its first-phase.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nIt would be the largest single investment in the automobile industry of South Africa and even of the whole of Africa after its completion.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nAt full capacity, its vehicle and complete knock-down parts business will hit 18.6 billion yuan, and contribute 6.2 billion yuan to the exports of South Africa.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nStatistics indicate that China has been Africa\u2019s largest trading partner for nine consecutive years, with the investment to Africa totaling over $100 billion.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nThe achievements of China-Africa industrialization cooperation can be seen everywhere, said China\u2019s Ambassador to South Africa Lin Songtian.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nHe  added that a large number of projects, including railways, ports and industrial parks have been completed, which significantly accelerated Africa\u2019s industrialization drive and showed a strong momentum for rapid development.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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\nLin believes that China has become and will continue to be the most reliable friend and partner of Africa, helping African countries to achieve sustainable development.<\/u><\/u><\/div>\n
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