By Abduel Elinaza
AN 80-member
business delegation from China's Shandong Province will arrive in the
country on Wednesday for a four-day business and investing scouting
mission.
Once in the
country, the delegation mission organised by the Department of Commence
of Shandong in collaboration with Tanzania Investment Centre and East
Africa's Commercial and Logistics Centre Chamber of Commerce (EACLCCC),
will have two days each in the mainland and Isles.
EACLCCC Manager Ms
Cathy Wang said the delegation comprising of government and private
companies are looking for export and import opportunities.
"Their intention is
to explore the Tanzania market for a friendly exchanges and common
development of bilateral relations and mutual development between
Tanzania and China," Ms Wang told reporters yesterday.
EACLCCC, registered
this year, has so far attracted 400 members mostly from Tanzania and
designed to foster mutual business and investment relation for
Sino-Tanzania.
The delegation,
under the guidance of Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of China and Tanzania Prime Minister's Office (Investment) and
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, will have a
special forum on Thursday before proceeding to Zanzibar on the next day.
The delegation will
look on how to scale up agriculture export and import trading in the
area of agriculture equipment and products.
"They will exchange
views on motor vehicle- new and used, aquatic products, marine culture
industry, fishery, as well as livestock industry," Ms Wang said.
They will also
discuss general situation regarding financing import and export trades
as well as Sino- Tanzania trade financing programme.
"The delegation will also look on the possibility of direct import and export, cutting a third part country.
"For instance, China is consuming a lot of beef from Tanzania but mostly imported through Kenya," Ms Wang said.
Once in the
country, the delegation will be hosted by the Prime Minister's Office
(Investment), Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Livestock and
Fishery, TIC, Export Processing Zone Authority (EPZA) and EACLCCC.
Shandong is the third wealthiest province in China with a GDP of 1.156
trillion US dollars last year.
It is also one of populous with over 100.5 million people as of this year's census
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