The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says Ghana is aiming to replicate China’s development model, which has seen her, over the last three decades, creating progress and prosperity for the masses of the Chinese people.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “we are witnessing, today, how China’s aggressive development of the market economy, on the wheels of industrialization, in this new era of “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”, has lifted some half a billion people out of poverty, creating the world's largest middle class in the process.”
Ghana, the President said, is “inspired by this model, and are trying to replicate same, through, inter alia, our industrialisation policy of “1-District-1-Factory”, and an increase in agricultural productivity through the programme for ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’.”
He made this known on Tuesday, 4th September, 2018, when he addressed the roundtable meeting of Presidents and Heads of State at the 3rd Summit of the Forum on China Africa Co-operation (FOCAC), in Beijing, China.
Congratulating His Excellency Mr. Xi Jinping on the holding of the Summit, President Akufo-Addo noted that both sides of the aisle, i.e. China and Africa, recognize that a win-win situation for their respective peoples is the desired outcome.
With China being Ghana’s largest trading partner, and, indeed, for the majority of countries in Africa, the President noted that the continent is grateful grateful for the support, i.e. financial and technical, given to African countries over the years, and implementation of the commitments made by China at recent FOCAC Summits, which have benefitted the peoples of our continent considerably.
“We believe that the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, proposed by President Xi Jinping, will further intensify Chinese commitment to Africa’s development. Last night’s message from President Xi, in his opening statement at this Summit, involving the allocation of a comprehensive package of support for Africa’s development, including a $60 billion fund, is a powerful reinforcement of that commitment,” he said.
The President continued, “I have urged others not to ignore Africa, and I am glad that China is, most certainly, not ignoring our continent.”
With the World Bank projecting that six of the world's ten fastest growing economies this year, including Ghana’s, are in Africa, he indicated that the continent is rich in natural resources, and in possession of nearly 30 percent of the earth's remaining mineral resources.
To this end, the President stressed that the resolve of his Government is to build a value-added, industrialised economy with a modernised agriculture, trading in the global marketplace on the basis of things it makes, and chart its own self-reliant, independent path within the world economic order.
“We believe that effective co-operation with China will help us attain this goal. Indeed, we want our relations with China to be characterised by an increase in trade and investment co-operation, and not by the export and import of raw materials,” he said.
This, he believed, is the way to develop healthy relations between Ghana and China, and, thereby, put Ghana at the high end of the value chain, and create jobs for the teeming masses of Ghanaians, particularly the youth.
President Akufo-Addo, in conclusion, told his colleague Presidents that “we are determined that this new era of Ghana-China, and Africa-China relations will reaffirm the principles of solidarity, mutual trust and respect, which have anchored those relations, and which will assist us deliver progress and prosperity for our peoples.”
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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When did stating a fact become an insult. If someone is daydreaming and hallucinating and i say it, is that an insult?
he loves himself and pictures. that's all he does. eat, sleeps and take pictures with successful world leaders again and again. we will show u in 2020 you this dwarf.
Ghana beyond aid
I thought the president and his vice told us they will not borrow and that the money is in this country. I remember him said Ghana without aid , so what has changed? Look talk is cheap so continue talking until your term of office is over.
There is no amount of PROPAGANDA from the opposition that will stop this incorruptible saviour Nehemiah Akufo Addo to build this country so folks let's all rally behind him and shout SSHHOOOO BOOI! (YEEII) to get together and build, this is the time to build
Well said Mr President, we believe in you. With you leading us the vision is easy to grabs. Good job done. So far so very good.
A pity looking African leaders parked in a room like sardine begging for alms from China whose population is even equal or more than the African population.Hmmmmmm
@King dream and promise. The Chinese said a journey of a thousand kilometers starts with a step. Please fear God and respect your elders. God is watching you as you ridicule your elders for the sake of politics. You can express your disagreements with the president without insults and innuendoes. Having a vision is very vital to success in life..and seeking assistance to carry through your vision is not a crime. ADEPA NA Y3SUA. China was poor some 25yrs ago but Deng's vision to modernise the Chinese society has worked to prosper the nation beyond measure. Aside these unnecessary criticisms of yours, what are you doing as an individual to raise your standard of living and those of your family and your immediate society.
Good dream, but probably i would do it, by which time you woild have been buried. Thanks anyway for your vision. Even your free SHS you don't know how to go about it and you are talking about ghana being like China. This same rhetoric used to redenominate our cedi to equate that of America's, today the cedi has outrun almost every currency in the world. Talk is cheap. Someone told me he still smoke weed, is that true? Can anyone give an answer, because it seems to me he hallucinate a lot.