From May 24 to 28, Wei Xiaokui, the Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Committee, led a delegation to visit Zambia to investigate the local socio-economic development and seek cooperation potential in multiple fields. The delegation visited the Chinese Embassy in Zambia, held talks with the government of Livingston City, and inspected the Zhongyang Zambia Ecological Agriculture Industrial Park, witnessing the signing of a cooperation agreement between the industrial park and the Zambia Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center. Chen Shengde, Chairman of Zhongyang Holdings Group, and Long Anliang, Vice President of Zhongyang Construction Group and General Manager of International Company, accompanied them.

During the visit, the delegation received a warm reception from Ambassador Liu Guoyu of the Chinese Embassy in Zambia. Ambassador Liu praised Fuzhou City for its contributions to economic and trade cooperation between China and Zambia and commended Zhongyang Construction Group's ecological agriculture projects in Zambia. Secretary Wei Xiaokui expressed gratitude for the long-term support and assistance provided by the embassy to enterprises from Fuzhou in Zambia and hoped that the embassy would continue to offer guidance.

At Livingston City Government in Zambia, Secretary Wei Xiaokui had an in-depth exchange with local government officials. He stated that it has been 60 years since China and Zambia established diplomatic relations, with increasing tourism and cultural exchanges forming a diverse interactive pattern of cultural communication. Fuzhou City has been conducting friendly exchanges with Livingston City since 2018 and signed a letter of intent to establish friendly city relations in 2019. He looks forward to both sides continuing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in construction engineering, cultural tourism, etc., aiming to establish formal friendly city relations soon.

In addition to their visit, the delegation specifically inspected Zhongyang Zambia Ecological Agriculture Industrial Park. This park is a large farm covering an area of 3,000 hectares successfully acquired by Zhongyang Group in response to China's Belt and Road Initiative in 2018; it is also Jiangxi Province's first large-scale agricultural project invested overseas by private enterprises. Through increased investment in agricultural infrastructure within the park, grain production has risen year after year, far exceeding local averages. The industrial park integrates planting, breeding, and processing; it mainly grows crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat etc., establishing stable good seed cooperation relationships with internationally renowned companies Bayer and Syngenta. The soybeans and corn seeds cultivated are popular across Zambia's national market contributing positively to national food production. The park also raises over 2,000 high-quality beef cattle employing more than 600 people long-term providing numerous job opportunities for local communities.

The delegation also witnessed the signing of a cooperation agreement between Zhongyang Zambia Ecological Agriculture Industrial Park and the Zambia Agricultural Technology Demonstration Center. This demonstration center was built with aid from Jilin Agricultural University representing the Chinese government and is jointly managed with the University of Zambia. The demonstration center has trialed multiple crop varieties locally significantly improving both yield and quality; notably corn yields from demonstration fields are over five times higher than local averages.

The signing of this cooperation agreement marks a substantial step forward for both parties towards deepening collaboration in technological innovation, improving agricultural production efficiency and quality as well as increasing added value for agricultural products; it sets a new example for Jiangxi Province's agricultural industry entering Africa while opening a new chapter for agricultural cooperation between China and Zambia which will greatly promote local farmers' income increase while driving transformation upgrades within local agricultural industries.

At the signing ceremony for this cooperation agreement Secretary Wei Xiaokui stated that this collaboration will inject new vitality into Zambian agricultural development while providing broader development space for entrepreneurs from Fuzhou. He emphasized that both sides should further strengthen communication and coordination ensuring smooth progress on cooperative projects contributing positively towards economic social development between China and Zambia.

Secretary Wei Xiaokui's visit is a great encouragement for Zhongyang Group's overseas endeavors fully reflecting how much importance municipal committees as well as governments place on further deepening external cooperative exchanges by Fuzhou enterprises. Zhongyang Group will seize historical opportunities presented by 'Belt & Road' initiative along with Sino-African agricultural collaboration engaging comprehensively with domestic foreign agricultural enterprises creating overseas demonstration parks characterized by digital agriculture green agriculture technology agriculture features. The group also plans to establish an integrated sightseeing leisure vacation agro-forestry recreational tourism area in Zambia further enriching its agricultural industry chain enhancing comprehensive project benefits setting new benchmarks for Jiangxi’s overseas agricultural cooperative parks.

During his visit Secretary Wei Xiaokui also hosted a symposium at Zhongyang Construction Group’s office in Zambia gathering entrepreneurs from Fuzhou residing there understanding their development situations encountered difficulties encouraging them to continue embodying daring spirit contributing more strength towards economic trade cooperation between both countries.

The A Zone project of the Chongqing Qiuchi Commercial Pedestrian Street, undertaken by Zhongyang Construction Group, has grandly opened.

Chen Shengde, Chairman of the Board of Zhongyang Holdings Group, participated in the theme event of the Fuzhou City Model Workers Association entering Yihuang and delivered a speech.

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