CLOSURE OF THE CHINA-AFRICA ECONOMIC FORUM IN BEIJING SIGNATURE OF PROTOCOLS OF UNDERSTANDING ON THE EXPORT OF SOYBEAN, SESAME, CHILI PEPPER, COFFEE AND COCOA TO CHINA AND ON THE MODERNIZATION OF THE OCC UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE CONGOLESE MINISTER
This is a very good harvest achieved by the Congolese Minister of Foreign Trade on the sidelines of the China-Africa cooperation forum which closed yesterday Friday in Beijing after a week of high-level meetings and discussions.
Julien Paluku Kahongya supervised the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding on the purchase of Congolese agricultural products from China.
The Chinese companies which signed with the Congolese companies directly placed the first order which is
one million tonnes of soya, 20,000 tonnes of sesame, 10,000 tonnes of chilli, 5,000 tonnes of coffee and 3,000 tonnes of cocoa.
This signature augurs the
reconciliation of the Congolese with the land to increase the volume of exports from the DRC to China, said the Minister of Foreign Trade while once again calling on Congolese operators to take more interest in agro-business, because
the Government has listed 62 products which will be subject to exports.
Just afterwards, Julien Paluku Kahongya supervised the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Office Congolais de Controle-OCC represented by its Director General, Étienne Tshimanga and the Chinese company Beijing Lixiaoman Technology;
objective, to further modernize the Congolese Control Office-OCC.
Thanks to this partnership, the OCC will equip itself with certified ultra-modern laboratories to strengthen the control of quality, conformity and certification of products leaving and entering the Democratic Republic of Congo to thus materialize the vision of President Félix Tshisekedi in this area.
rejoiced the Minister of Foreign Trade.
Note that this die-hard and tireless Minister has held numerous meetings in the Chinese capital, selling the opportunities offered by the DRC, with the aim of allowing his country to benefit from a large share of the 50 billion US dollars announced by the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, in favor of the African continent.
