Qingdao, Shandong, China, June 19, 2025: Chinese language traders from Shandong Province are anticipated to go to Liberia shortly on an funding exploration mission, as a part of efforts to strengthen ties between the 2 nations and enhance funding.
Shandong Provincial leaders are additionally eager on taking the Liberia/China relationship additional by establishing a sister metropolis relationship between Monrovia and Shandong, Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung informed journalists touring with him in an interview on Wednesday, June 18, following a closed-door assembly with Chinese language Provincial leaders.
Describing the assembly as fruitful and transactional, Vice President Koung stated it falls in step with President Boakai’s agenda and that companies of presidency will comply with up to make sure that the beliefs of the assembly are realized.
The assembly with Governor Zhou Naixiang, who doubles because the Deputy Secretary of the CPC Shandong Province and different senior members of Shandong Province and the Governing CPC is a part of facet occasions on his bodily verification tour of corporations which have submitted unsolicited bids to provide the 285 items of earth-moving tools badly wanted by the Joseph Boakai regime for vigorous roads building work within the nation.
The opposite senior Shandong Provincial leaders within the assembly have been Vice Governor Music Junji, Deputy Secretary of the CPC, Qingdao Municipal Committee and Mayor of Qingdao Metropolis, Ren Gang, Deputy Secretary-Common and Director Common of the Common workplace of Shandong Provincial Individuals Authorities, Solar Qisheng, Director Common of Shandong Provincial State-Owned Property Supervision and Administration Fee and Chairman of Shandong Heavy Trade Group, Man Shengang.
The remainder have been Li Hong, Deputy Director-Common of the Workplace of International Affairs Committee of CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, and Zhang Qingwei, Deputy Director-Common of Shandong Provincial Committee Division.
Vice President Koung was accompanied by Public Works Minister Roland Giddings, Liberia’s Ambassador to China, Amb. McKinley Thomas, PPCC Govt Director, Bodger Scott Johnson, Assistant Finance Minister for Finances, Sarah Mulbah, Robert Wilson, Deputy Director of GSA, Macdonald Metzger, Deputy Chief of Workers to the Vice President, and Ephraim T. Teage Sr., Deputy Chief of Protocol.
In response to Vice President Koung, Shandong Province has quite a lot of potential that Liberia can profit from. He named power and agriculture as among the areas Liberia can faucet into.
“We inspired Chinese language corporations to spend money on Liberia,” he stated. “Qingdao is robust in Vitality and Agriculture, and we will do extra collectively after this go to.”
Vice President Koung stated that throughout the assembly, they mentioned coaching for Liberian college students in agriculture. He additionally talked about that Governor Zhou spoke of attempting to open alternatives for each nations and work on rising the slots for Liberian college students to review in Shandong Province.
Earlier, Vice President Koung and the delegation toured Shandong Port, the place they noticed a totally digitalized operation with minimal human involvement on the port.
In the meantime, Vice President Koung and the delegation climaxed the day after attending the welcome banquet of the sixth Qingdao Multinationals Summit. He’s anticipated to ship the opening deal with immediately. -Studies Othello B. Garblah.
