By Staff Reporter
President Dr Lazarus Chakwera and The First Lady have left China on the way back home. This is after what has been described as a successful China trip where top of the schedule was the 3rd China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE). President Chakwera was invited to attend as Guest of Honour.
Writing on the official President’s page on Facebook , President Chakwera wrote “Together with my entire delegation, we have had a busy four days in which we met government and Communist Party officials, representatives from financial institutions and not forgetting fellow Malawians living in China”
The President said the Malawi delegation were also privileged to be taken on a tour to a number of industrial firms where they had the opportunity to appreciate some modern innovations that Malawi intends to embrace as the country quest of becoming an industrialised, self-reliant and inclusively wealthy economy.
While in China, President Chakwera has established a strong foundation for more cooperation in key sectors such as trade, agriculture, health, education, ICT and mining among others.
The President also took the opportunity to drum up and lobby to China for restructuring of debt, a major prerequisite to improving Malawi’s debt sustainability with multilateral lending institutions.
The President is scheduled to arrive in Malawi on Sunday
