South Africa: Deputy President Mashatile receives courtesy visit from Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade
Vice President Shipokosa Paulus Mashatile today made a courtesy visit at the OR Tambo official residence in Pretoria on Thursday, February 20, 2025 at the Chairman of the China Committee for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT). Province.
CCPIT is China’s major economic promotion agency that reports directly to the state legislature, promotes and promotes foreign trade and investment by supporting Chinese companies (which members) to conduct business abroad and participates and supports foreign companies. Operations in China.
It has more than 400,000 Chinese business members, most of which are from state-owned companies (state-owned enterprises).
The visit to the Vice President follows Cyril Ramaphosa’s successful second national visit to China in September 2024. In particular, it builds on the results of the president’s business participation, including the seminal South Africa-China Presidential Business Forum, a closed roundtable discussion between the president and the leadership of 20 senior Chinese investors and Shenzhen’s presidential business plan, The program focuses on China’s leading major investor centers for technology and innovation.
Therefore, the Chairman’s visit mainly focused on following up the implementation of the results of the 9th China-Africa Cooperation Summit (EMECAC) Summit held in Beijing in September 2024, and optimized the trade and investment environment to better cooperate, To better cooperate with South Africa and China.
Vice President Mashatile welcomes China’s plan to hold a field ministerial coordination meeting in June 2025 with the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo.
He said such events would strengthen Africa-China economic relations and accelerate projects in industrialization, infrastructure, agricultural modernization and green development, aligning with the 2063 AU agenda goals.
“Chairman, our president is inspired by the number of Chinese companies he interacted with Beijing and Shenzhen last year and they both expressed their desire to increase their investment exposure in South Africa. We continue to prioritize new investments in target areas and expand charity in South Africa. and manufacturing bases, especially in automotive and energy, will help local job creation, technology and skills transfer.”
In addition, the Vice President took this opportunity to mobilize Chinese companies to participate in this year’s Business 20 (B20) meeting in South Africa.
The chairman also invited South Africa to attend the invitation of the vice-chairman to participate in the third China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) held by CCPIT in Beijing in July this year. CISCE is one of four national trade and investment conferences held in China every year. The second CISCE was held in Beijing in November 2024, with Mr. Han Zheng, Vice President of China.
After the meeting with the Vice President, the Chairman is expected to meet with Mr. Parks Tau, Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition.
At this meeting, Vice President Mashatile was supported by Ms. Moraka, Deputy Minister for International Relations and Cooperation, and Mr. Godlimpi, Deputy Minister for Trade Industry and Competition.
Issued by Apo Group on behalf of the President of the Republic of South Africa.
