Browsing: Sino-Tanzania

2022 trade volumes between China and Tanzania grew by 23.7% year-on-year, reaching US$8.31 billion growing 3.5 times compared to 2012, ten years before. Photo/GlobalTimes
  • Trade between China and Tanzania grew by 23.7% year-on-year, reaching US$8.31 billion in 2022
  • China pledges increased cooperation under its Global Development Initiative
  • As of 2022, trade volume between China and Africa reached US$282 billion dollars, an 11.1% year-on-year growth.

China-Tanzania relations can be measured in growing trade portfolios and can be seen in Chinese President Xi Jinping’s choice to make Tanzania the first African country to visit when he came into power in 2013.

Not only was Tanzania President Xi’s first African country to visit but his first overseas trip since assuming the presidency.

In his speech 10 years ago, delivered at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Center which was built with Chinese assistance, President Xi cemented relations between the two long-term friends and partners.

In his speech titled; “Be Trustworthy Friends and Sincere Partners Forever,” President Xi emphasized the principles of sincerity, goodwill, good faith, and pursuing the …