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Herald Reporter
A Chinese telecommunications company, ZTE Corporation, yesterday donated 20 computers to Zimbabwe for use in the implementation of the country’s five-year economic blueprint — the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation.
The computers were handed over to Acting President Cde Joice Mujuru at her Munhumutapa offices by ZTE senior account manager, Mr Duan Yong.
The donation follows a visit by ZTE corporation chairman, Mr Hou Weigui, in September last year.
“I remember very well that visit (by Mr Hou), it is still vivid in my mind. We were talking of how the Food and Nutrition department had been given a new responsibility under Zim-Asset and that for us to achieve what we want to achieve the country has to have enough food and with good nutrition.
“The major issues that we want the sector to do is desk planning and that has to be done using these computers,” said the Acting President.
She welcomed the donation saying the use of modern information technologies had been identified as a critical component in the success of Zim-Asset.
“You know with technology it is one thing that we are very sure of, it’s one area that other than the four other areas we have pronounced, we are not going to leave out,” she said.
Apart from the Food and Nutrition cluster the others that have been identified as critical under Zim-Asset include the social service and poverty reduction cluster, education, infrastructure and utilities and value addition and beneficiation.
Mr Yong said ZTE was prepared to assist Zimbabwe successfully implement its economic blueprint.
“We hope we can do what we can do for Zimbabwe and Zimbabwean people under the Zim-Asset. Zimbabwe and China are brothers and we want to go hand in hand into the future,” he said.
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