STORY: Chinese pharmaceutical companies explore African, Middle Eastern markets
DATELINE: Sept. 6, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:13
LOCATION: Cairo
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of international pharmaceutical exhibition
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JIANG MIN, Senior sales manager, Luohe Chief Pharmaceutical
3. various of visitors talking with Chinese exhibitors
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FANG ZHENRONG, Chairman of Coben Pharma
5. various of booths of Chinese pharmaceutical companies
6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ABDEL-HAMID ABOUL-ELA, CFO of Harvest Pharma
7. various of people visiting the pharmaceutical exhibition
8. SOUNDBITE 4 (Arabic): GAMAL EL-LEITHY, Chairman of Egypt's Industrial Chamber of Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, and Appliances

STORYLINE:

Dozens of Chinese pharmaceutical companies participated in the just-concluded Pharmaconex 2023, an international pharma exhibition held in Egypt's capital Cairo, in order to explore business opportunities in Africa and the Middle East.
   
The three-day exhibition, which concluded on Tuesday, gathered pharmaceutical companies from countries including Egypt, China, India, the United States, Italy, France, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): JIANG MIN, Senior sales manager, Luohe Chief Pharmaceutical
"The Egyptian market is new to us. It's the first time for us to come here. And right now we are going to promote our products here. We not only want to make the business relationship with the customers here, we also want to make good friends in the Egyptian market."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): FANG ZHENRONG, Chairman of Coben Pharma
"The market is growing very fast during those years. And I hope it will be a good future for us to enter this market."

SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ABDEL-HAMID ABOUL-ELA, CFO of Harvest Pharma
"We have a lot of businesses with Guobang Pharma, which is one of China's largest active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturers. China is the largest partner of Egypt in the pharmaceutical industry, whether in terms of materials or machines."

SOUNDBITE 4 (Arabic): GAMAL EL-LEITHY, Chairman of Egypt's Industrial Chamber of Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, and Appliances
"There's close cooperation between Egypt and China in the pharmaceutical field. We import a lot of relevant supplies from China. Now we hope more Chinese firms will invest and build factories to manufacture pharmaceuticals in Egypt."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Cairo.
(XHTV)