Rich in hydrocarbons and strategically located in southeastern Africa, Mozambique has emerged as an important country for China in the Indian Ocean region.
Mozambique has a very long coastline along the Indian Ocean Territory, and China enters Zambia and Zimbabwe through the Mozambique Channel. According to African experts, rail and road infrastructure was airlifted to Mozambique to access the latter landlocked country, where China has invested heavily in various projects, and eventually with these countries. The purpose is to transport these equipment and materials between.
With access in mind, China’s Exim Bank has funded a total of US $ 315 million in road construction projects, despite the road length being just over 74 km. Did. The “Maputo Ring Road” is considered one of Mozambique’s main national highways, with six bridges and three interchanges.
China advertises construction companies in Africa, and within this framework major development projects have been handed over to Chinese companies and funded by Chinese banks. In this case, Exim Bank of China was fully funded by China Road and Bridge Corporation (CBRC).
Another high-tech Chinese company, Maputo AFECC Gloria Hotel (Costadsol), has been granted permission to build in collaboration with the Government of Mozambique and the AFECC Group (Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group, lda), which is the entity of China.
According to experts following China’s presence, the project will feature 300 million in a 14-story tower heavily influenced by Chinese architecture, consisting of a high-tech conference center, a game room and a supermarket dedicated to Chinese products. The dollar has been invested. In Southeast Africa.
Similarly, the Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group (AFECC) has won a project worth 100 million yuan to build a modern office building in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mozambique. It has been found to have been intended to house high-tech Chinese-made office complexes, conference rooms, and international facilities that act as the center of Chinese espionage and surveillance.
Apart from these construction activities, China is also developing Xai-Xai Chongoene Airport in Chongoene City with an investment of about $ 60 million. This project in Mozambique has also been taken over by the Chinese company China Aviation International Construction and Investment Company Limited. The company also allows Chinese entities to carry out advertising and marketing efforts outside of passenger terminals such as terminal construction, airport access roads, and parking lots / gardens.
China may build a military base in the country to meet China’s military outlook while promoting economic control over the African continent.
CUTS International Secretary-General P? radeep Mehta, who has an extensive network in Africa through his local branch, told ET: .. Having a second naval base in Africa allows China to prepare for any contingency on the Suez Canal and to have the prescription for Hu Jintao’s “Malaka Dilemma.” African countries should be aware that such bases can pose a great risk, such as crushing grass when two elephants fight. ”
ET has learned that China is considering building ports and railroads in areas with heavy sand treatment plants in the Sibut area to transport precious titanium from Mozambique to mainland China. Chinese mining company Dingsheng has invested about $ 400 million in this project and aims to export at least 2 tonnes of titanium from the plant in the near future. Dingsheng International Investment Co. Ltd. is basically China Anhui Foreign Economic (Group) Co. Ltd., which is in charge of construction, management and operation of the Manga-Mungassa Special Economic Zone on the outskirts of Beira. Is a subsidiary of. , A bustling economic center.
The planned area for the first phase is 217 hectares and is expected to expand to 1,000 hectares by affecting Mozambique’s leadership. An investment of approximately US $ 500 million is required to build an economic and trade cooperation zone that integrates processing, manufacturing, packaging and logistics.
China has also begun buying shares in Barclays Africa with the aim of acquiring a Portuguese bank in Mozambique. [soon to be ABSA Group].. The Confucius Institute (CI), which depicts Chinese architecture, was built at the prestigious university Eduardmond Lane (UEM) in Mozambique.
Mozambique is the first African country to sign a global strategic partnership cooperation and agreement with China and is a member of the Maritime Silk Road.
China has exerted a great deal of influence on Mozambique as the largest bilateral creditor at $ 2.2 billion, a trend that applies virtually across the African continent.
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