China Gezhouba : New milestone in China-Africa relations: A new journey for CGGC
12/20/2015
On December 4, 2015, the grand opening ceremony of Johannesburg Summit Meeting of China-Africa Cooperation Forum was held in South Africa jointly hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Africa President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma. This is the first China-Africa Submit Meeting ever held on the African continent and also the second summit meeting in the 15-year history of the Forum following the Beijing Summit Meeting in 2006. Considering its significance and extraordinary achievements, it marks a new milestone in China-Africa relations towards a higher level.
Such a new milestone is expected to be kept on the historic record: in this Forum, CGGC was honored as one of the 'Top 10 Chinese Enterprises that Inspire Africa'.Africa also contributes half of the total overseas contracts of CGGC in the five years from 2010 to 2015. With its unlimited potentials, Africa once again becomes the focus of attention of the top-level design and survey team of regional markets of CGGC.No pains, no gains. As the pioneer in China's 'investment overseas' strategy, CGGC is destined to be a committed long-term investor in Africa. We are also destined to be part of the memory of South Africa and the nation of rainbow. As a participant in and builder of China-Africa friendship, we are committed to flying even higher in the new era.
Flying with the Wind: Our Ability on Full Display
It is hot summer with bright sunshine in the Southern Hemisphere in December. The heads of state and leading governmental officials of 50 African nations and chairman of the African Union all had a get-together in Johannesburg to express their friendship to the Chinese president, talk about cooperation and promote win-win partnership. A three-year plan was passed for development of China-Africa relations in all aspects and demonstration of the win-win partnership and joint development of China and Africa to the world. As an outstanding representative of Chinese enterprises, CGGC was invited to attend the opening ceremony and relevant events of the Summit Meeting.
As one of the few representatives of enterprises invited to attend the grand ceremony of the Summit Meeting, our representative witnessed President Xijinping's declaration to offer a total of 60 billion US dollars to preferentially finance ten major partnership projects between China and Africa in industrialization, agricultural modernization and infrastructure in the next three years. We also witnessed the elevation of the new-type strategic partnership to all-around strategic partnership between China and Africa.
During the China-Africa Investment and Financing Forum jointly sponsored by the State Reform and Development Commission, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Standard Bank of South Africa, Lv Zexiang, general manager of CGGC International, delivered a keynote speech titled New Driving Forces of Innovation and Development and Joint Exploration of the Global Market between China and Africa. He introduced the extraordinary achievements, advanced experience, great general strength, pioneering spirits of innovation, strong sense of social responsibility and sincerity of CGGC for joint development to all participants of the meeting and the mainstream global media from three perspectives, i.e. performance of social responsibility, promotion of partnership between China and Africa and assistance in the restructuring of the African economy.
Yuan Baoyi, deputy general manager of CGGC International, attended the high-level dialog between leading officials and industrial and commercial representatives of China and Africa and the 5th Conference of Chinese and South African Entrepreneurs jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Department of Trade and Industry (South Africa). The industrial and academic elites who participated in the dialog and conference discussed on the cooperation trend between China and Africa in infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, finance and mining and the development prospects of bilateral trade and economic relations.
In the China-South Africa Trade and Investment Forum, the Chinese and South African Enterprise Exchange Meeting and more other exhibitions, workshops and seminars, our representatives introduced the story of Gezhouba and promoted our CGGC brand to the African Continent through their professional, progressive and positive spirits and gained extensive credits and acclaims.
Friends at all corners of the world: joint development for win-win partnership
The Summit Meeting was attended by numerous guests in Johannesburg. It became a stage for mutual exchanges and establishment of friendship. At this memorable historic moment, we met old friends and made new friends. We shared our past cooperation experience and discussed on future development blueprints with the heads of states of eight African countries and four ministers, including Nigeria. It fit in with our business goal to 'make more new friends'.
Lv Zexiang and Yuan Baoyi, the general manager and deputy general manager of CGGC International respectively introduced the development history, technical ability, investment ability, financing ability, global network and recent representative projects of CGGC, our concept of 'credibility, equality and win-win partnership', our operating conditions in African nations in recent years and the progress of some key projects to the high-ranking governmental officials of many African countries. We also expressed our thanks for the support and help of the governments and people of various African countries in the long past. Finally, we also expressed our good wishes to promote the extensive and deep cooperation between China and Africa in the construction and investment in the sectors of energy, transportation and other infrastructures.
Our old friends recalled their deep impressions on the TGP dam and expressed their gratitude for the CGGC's contributions to promoting their key national projects and their expectations to further promote their long-term stable socioeconomic development and the continuous improvement of their people's living standards. The new friends that we made in the Summit Meeting expressed their appreciation of our high general strength and our great achievements in the internationalization of the businesses. They invited us to dispatch our delegation to visit and survey their countries as soon as possible and expressed their wishes for CGGC to participate in the construction and investment of their national energy and transportation infrastructures.
The leading officials of various African countries all believed that CGGC enjoyed high reputation in Africa for our TGP project and the series of our outstanding projects in Africa. They all expected us to engage in more quality projects in Africa in the future after the Summit Meeting. They believed the bilateral partnerships would contribute to a better future for both China and Africa.
Lv Zexiang and his delegation also paid a visit to ten-plus Chinese ambassadors, counselors and consulates in African countries during the trip to Africa to report the progress of CGGC's projects in Africa and listen to their opinions and proposals. We also discussed with heads of relevant financial institutions of China.
Realizing dreams in a solid and fruitful manner
No pains, no gains. Our strenuous efforts and strong commitments have brought us fruitful gains. During the Summit Meeting, CGGC had in-depth communications and exchanges with many African countries, reached a series of common understandings on mutually-beneficial partnerships and signed multiple partnership agreements in the electric power sector.
In Nigeria, we will have close cooperation with the Nigerian government, fully utilize the convenience established under the framework of the Johannesburg Summit Meeting and establish key nodes of national power supply network of Nigeria so as to promote the development of resource, public utilities construction, transportation, employment and relevant service industries around and address the severe lack of electricity in the capital city of Nigeria.
In Malawi, CGGC is awarded with the mission of constructing the energy heart of the country with an aim to break the bottleneck of power supply, release the enormous potentials of economic development in the vast regions between the capital city (Lilongwe) and the economic center (Blantyre) of Malawi.
Meanwhile, many presidents and ministers have sent their calls to us for a visit to their countries. The seeds that we sewed in the Summit Meeting have sprouted and will harvest in the near future.
On December 5, 2015, the Johannesburg Summit Meeting of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum came to a successful conclusion with the signing of two blueprints, i.e. Declaration of Johannesburg Summit Meeting of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum and China-Africa Cooperation Forum: Johannesburg Action Plan (2016-2018).
The bilateral trade and economic cooperation between China and Africa has developed rapidly in the past 15 years of the China-Africa Forum. In 2014, the trade volume between China and Africa reached 222 billion US dollars, 21 times of that in 2000. China has been the largest trading partner of Africa for six years' running.
With strenuous efforts and diligence of the CGGC in the past 10 years, the international businesses have started from the scratch and developed on a stable and sustainable track through our reforms and innovations.
China and Africa constitute a community of fate together. The African continent is also essential to our international businesses. In light of the historic calls and the beacons of the era, we will be developing stably and firmly towards our goal of becoming a multinational corporation and realizing the blueprints depicted in the Guidance.
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