On December 7, Yuan Lin, economic and commercial representative in Tanzania, was invited to attend the opening ceremony of the pan-household brand product exhibition and experience hall set up by Boda Group in Tanzania. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Tanzania Kacunda, Deputy Director of Commerce Department of Guangdong Province Ma Hua, Deputy Secretary General of Foshan Municipal People's Government Huang Feifei, President of Boda Group Wang Lixin and other people attended the event. Nearly 100 representatives of Chinese and Tanzanian enterprises attended the event。
Representative Yuan said in his speech that thanks to the traditional friendly and cooperative relations between China and Tanzania, a large number of domestic enterprises have come to Tanzania to participate in local economic construction, and Boda Group is one of the best. It worked intensively in Tanzanistan for more than 20 years, becoming the largest trader in Tanzanistan. Today, Boda Group combines Foshan's mature furniture production base with the group's market advantage in Tanzania to set up Foshan Pan-home brand exhibition and experience Museum in the local area, which is a small step for Boda Group to carry out diversified operations, and also an important step for Chinese enterprises to develop in Tanzania. This shows the confidence of Chinese enterprises in Tanzania's economic development prospects and the determination of Chinese enterprises to actively participate in Tanzania's economic development. The Chinese Economic and Commercial Representative Office in Tanzania will continue to encourage and support Chinese enterprises to invest and develop in Tanzania, and hopes that the Tanzanian government will introduce more and more favorable policies to attract foreign investment and improve the business environment.
Minister Kakunda said that China-Tanzania friendship has a long history and Tanzania cannot achieve its industrialization goal without the help of Chinese friends. It is hoped that more and more Chinese enterprises will invest in Tanzania and participate in the economic construction of Tanzanian agricultural products processing, manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, mineral mining and other fields. The Tanzanian government will give its full support. At the same time, he warned all Tanzanian employees to learn hard from Chinese employees and work skills and attitudes, and to be grateful to Chinese investors. It is the arrival of Chinese investors that can provide jobs for the vast number of Tanzanians.
Ma said that Guangdong province is a major economic and foreign trade province in China. Guangdong's total amount of actual foreign investment, total amount of actual foreign investment, import and export goods and container volume through Guangdong ports are among the top in China. In recent years, trade and investment cooperation between Guangdong and Tanzania has maintained a sound momentum of development. In 2017, Guangdong's import and export to Tanzania reached US $1.08 billion, accounting for 31.3% of the total trade volume between China and Tanzania. 4 Tanzanian enterprises directly invested in Guangdong; Guangdong set up 3 new enterprises in Tanzania. In the future, there are broad prospects for deepening cooperation between Guangdong and Tanzania. According to the deployment of the Chinese government, Guangdong Province will continue to communicate and align its development strategies with Tanzania, steadily promote the import and export trade between Guangdong and Tanzania, support each other's participation in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, further expand cooperation areas, upgrade cooperation levels, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
After that, the guests witnessed the signing of cooperation projects on the spot by representatives of many enterprises from China and Tanzania, participated in the opening ceremony of the exhibition and experience museum, and toured the exhibition hall.
