The Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Tao Xinghu made an official visit to his Excellency Mr. Edgar Lungu, the President of Zambia on April 21, 2015, and made reports on the relevant information of the Company's investment and development in Zambia.
Mr.Tao gave the most gracious greetings to the President Mr. Lungu for the General Manager of CNMC and Secretary of the Party Committee, Mr. Zhang Keli during the meeting at first. He pointed out that, President Mr. Lungu paid a visit to the Headquarter of CNMC during his visit to China, attended the Zambia-China Economy, Trading and Tourism Forum jointly sponsored by Zambian Embassy in China and the CNMC and delivered a keynote speech and met with Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs, which had greatly encouraged their enthusiasm to invest and develop in Zambia-China Economic Cooperation Zone. Currently, the Chambishi Southeast Ore Body Project invested and constructed by NFCA, a subordinate company to CNMC, the Solar-powered Grinding Station Project invested and constructed by CNMC and a number of other key projects are advanced with all the strength.
President Mr. Lungu expressed his appreciations for the greeting from the General Manager Zhang Keli and the fruitful investment forum held successfully by CNMC. He pointed out that, the demonstration site of Solar-powered Grinding Station researched and developed in the northern province of Zambia by CNMC highly matched with the national situation of Zambia, which was an excellent beneficial project to people and warmly welcome by the people of Zambia, and he hoped that CNMC could promote and implement this project in large scale across the whole nation, guided the operations of the local people and promoted the local economic and social development. He encouraged that CNMC could continue to increase the investment in Zambia, manage the China-Zambia Economic and Trading Cooperation Zone well so as to attract more Chinese and foreign enterprises to invest in Zambia. He also wished that Mr. Tao could continue promoting the exchange between the private enterprises and the industrial and commercial enterprises, coordinated with the Zambian Government and the Chinese Embassy in Zambia, strengthened the mutual non-government trust, deepened the traditional friendship between the people and the business sector in Zambia and China so that China-Zambia friendship could remain fresh forever.
The deputy minister of presidential palace, General Secretary, assistant to the President press and other Zambian officials attended the meeting.
