Essay: Fresh butter fruit reflects the new kinetic energy of China -Africa cooperation

Xinhua News Agency, Nairobi, September 1: Fresh butter fruit reflects the new kinetic energy of China -Africa cooperation

Xinhua News Agency reporter Kim Jong Li Zhuoqun Zhu Shaobin

Recently, a group of fresh avocado filled with four containers arrived in China from the Kenya and sold to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other cities. This is the first time that fresh avocado from Africa has exported to China on a scale.

David Osiani, the state secretary of the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development, said happily that exporting fresh avocado to China is a milestone, which will increase Kenya foreign exchange income, boost economic vitality, and allow local relevant industry participants, especially avocado fruit, The growers benefit.

Little Catscerer reflects the vigorous and vitality of China -Africa agricultural cooperation in recent years. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, since the 2018 China -Africa Cooperation Forum Beijing Summit, 25 kinds of agricultural food products in 14 African countries including Kenya, South Africa, Benin, and Egypt have completed their access to China. In recent years, the average annual growth rate of Africa's exports to China has reached 11.4%. In 2021, Africa's exports to China ’s agricultural products increased by 18.2%year -on -year.

Tanzania's sesame, Senegal's peanuts, fresh pears in South Africa, sweet chrysanthemums in Rwanda ... more and more African agricultural products have entered the Chinese market and are loved by Chinese consumers.

China -Africa agricultural trade can cross the mountains and the sea, and the scale has achieved rapid growth. The policy support of both China and Africa provides important support.

At the eighth ministerial meeting of the China -Africa Cooperation Forum held in November last year, China announced the establishment of a "green channel" for the losses of African agricultural products. The China Customs General Administration has actively implemented and formulated practical and feasible access convenience measures: First, the application for agricultural product access proposed by African countries is given priority. After receiving the relevant technical information, the risk analysis is immediately launched to accelerate the promotion of quarantine access access. Work; second, for some agricultural products from the same country and processing technology, or the same agricultural product from different countries, under the premise of controllable risks, the risk assessment is merged to speed up the access process; the third is that the African countries have already been in African countries. The agricultural product manufacturers who have been allowed to lose China are facilitated registration, and flexible methods such as video inspection or document review are used to speed up evaluation and registration.

The efforts of China -Africa enterprises are equally indispensable. For example, in order to achieve the introduction of Kenya fresh avocado exports to China, the main partner of the Kenyan government avocado project, Shanghai Guorui Technology Information Co., Ltd. introduced fumigation technology from the Netherlands, and jointly agricultural experts formulated the entire fumigation process standards, and and and of. Introduce the standard to Kenya. The "China Enterprise Investment in Africa (2022) in the African Enterprise (2022) in the Corporation of Supply Chain" released by the China -Africa Civil Chamber of Commerce has pointed out that in recent years, Chinese companies are committed to investing in the construction of African supply chain and helping Africa to respond to the supply chain challenge challenge. The role of China is increasing.

China -Africa agricultural cooperation has flourished, thanks to China -Africa cooperation for many years. Driven by China -Africa cooperation, the face of African infrastructure has improved significantly. Since 2000, Chinese companies have helped African countries more than 10,000 kilometers of railway, nearly 100,000 kilometers of highways, nearly 1,000 bridges, nearly 100 ports, and online services cover nearly 700 million user terminals; , China -Africa e -commerce and other new trade formats have flourished. Some China -Africa cross -border e -commerce platforms have now built thousands of end logistics distribution points in Africa ... These achievements and measures have entered the Chinese market for African agricultural products and Chinese goods are directly reached in Africa. The community provides more opportunities.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, China will also host the China -Africa and Botanical Sanitation Forum to support and facilitate more African high -quality farm food products to enter the Chinese market. Undoubtedly, with the efforts of both parties, the prospects of China -Africa agricultural cooperation will be wider.

[Editor in charge: Wang Mengmeng]

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