STORY: Zimbabwe seeks to diversify exports to China
SHOOTING TIME: April 16, 2024
DATELINE: April 17, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:23
LOCATION: Harare
CATEGORY: ECONOMY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of promotion conference of the China International Import Expo in Zimbabwe
2. SOUNDBITE (English): ALLAN MAJURU, CEO, ZimTrade
3. various of Allan Majuru
   
STORYLINE:

Trade between Zimbabwe and China has been on an upward trajectory, and Zimbabwe is seeking to diversify its exports to the Asian country, Allan Majuru, CEO of the trade promotion agency ZimTrade, said on Tuesday.
   
SOUNDBITE (English): ALLAN MAJURU, CEO, ZimTrade
"If you look at China, it's one of our biggest trading partners both on exports and on imports. On the export side, you realise that slowly we are diversifying into horticulture, I think quite recently the protocol on export of citrus was put into place. And last year, we managed to export more than 40 containers of citrus into China, and we are currently discussing the one for avocados and this is being led by the Ministry of Agriculture with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so we want also to incorporate blueberries, pecan nuts, chillies, and sesame, just to mention a few, to make sure that we grow the export basket and diversify it to China."
   
Official data show that trade between China and Zimbabwe reached a record 3.12 billion U.S. dollars in 2023, up 29.9 percent from the previous year.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Harare.
(XHTV)