President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja tomorrow for a working visit to China aimed at securing greater support from Beijing for the development of Nigeria's infrastructure, especially in the power, roads, railways, aviation, water supply and housing sectors.
President
Buhari's talks with President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang and the
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Peoples’ Congress,
Zhang Dejiang will also focus on strengthening bilateral cooperation in
line with the Federal Government's agenda for the rapid diversification
of the Nigerian economy, with emphasis on agriculture and solid minerals
development.
It is expected that in the
course of the visit, several new agreements and memorandums of
understanding to boost trade and economic relations between Nigeria and
China will be concluded and signed.
The agreements include a Framework Agreement between the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and the National Development and Reform Commission of the Peoples' Republic of China to Boost Industrial Activities and Infrastructural Development in Nigeria.
The agreements include a Framework Agreement between the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and the National Development and Reform Commission of the Peoples' Republic of China to Boost Industrial Activities and Infrastructural Development in Nigeria.
Others
are a Framework Agreement between the Federal Ministry of
Communications and the China Aerospace Science and Technology
Corporation, and a Memorandum of Understanding between Nigeria and China
on Scientific and Technological Cooperation.
In
keeping with his administration's prioritization of economic
diversification and industrialisation to boost employment, President
Buhari and his delegation will tour the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and the
Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone to gain more
useful insights and understanding of the policies that underpinned
China's astronomical economic growth in recent years.
The
President, whose entourage will include some state governors as well as
the Ministers of Agriculture, Water Resources, Transport, Defence,
Power, Works & Housing, Industry, Trade & Investment, Federal
Capital Territory, Science & Technology and Foreign Affairs, will
also open a China-Nigeria Business/Investment Forum in Beijing and meet
with members of the Nigerian Community in China before returning to
Abuja at the weekend.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
April 9, 2016
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
April 9, 2016
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