admincountry’s rapid development, Zanu-PF national chairman Ambassador Simon Khaya-Moyo said yesterday.
Speaking to our Bulawayo Bureau after a one week visit to China where he led a high-powered Zanu-PF delegation, Ambassador Moyo, said the whole world was “looking East” because of the booming Chinese economy.
Ambassador Moyo said the Zanu-PF delegation agreed on a number of projects with the Communist Party of China (CCP), which would see the country benefiting in terms of training of leadership and other areas of mutual interest. He urged Zimbabweans to learn from the Chinese people and emulate how they were developing their economy.
“I led a delegation comprising Politburo members that was in China for one week at the invitation of the CCP. This was a very productive visit which coincided with celebrations of 90 years of the party’s formation in 1921,” said Ambassador Moyo.
“There are a number of things that we learnt and that we will do but I have to brief the party first on these areas which can benefit us as a country.
“As Zanu-PF we believe in one China policy and we continue to strengthen our relationship with that country because of our Look East Policy.
“Everyone is going there, China is the place to go for the whole world. What we need to do is find out how they are advancing themselves and learn very fast from them.”
Ambassador Moyo said Zanu-PF would implement a number of projects for the country, as the party moves to emulate what its counterparts in China are doing.
“We visited a number of projects undertaken in that country under the auspices of CPC.
“These include provincial party (CPC) training schools and factories that have contributed immensely towards the transformation of China’s economy which is growing at an alarming rate and likely to be the world’s number one economy soon.
“The two parties agreed on these projects for the benefit of our people,” said Ambassador Moyo.
He said the emphasis of the two parties’ engagement was to underline what Zanu-PF believed and subscribed to which was that the Government was a product of the party.
“We also visited Hebei province where there is a site where the party then led by chairman Cde Mao Tse Tung led the start of the final march to Beijing marking the long road to the founding of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1949,” said Ambassador Moyo.
The delegation comprised members of Zanu-PF Politburo, Governor for Matabeleland North Province, Cde Thokozile Mathuthu, Minister of Lands and Rural Resettlement Dr Hebert Murerwa, Cde Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and director of Science and Technology at the Zanu-PF Headquarters, Cde Gadzira Chirumhanzu.
Ambassador Moyo said Zanu-PF and CPC enjoy a fraternal relationship dating back to the days of the liberation struggle. The visit to China was a follow-up to an exchange programme, which saw leaders of the two political parties signing a Memorandum Of Understanding last year.
“Zanu-PF and China enjoy a fraternal and cordial relationship dating back to the days of liberation struggle that culminated in our independence in 1980.
“Last year members of the CPC led by Politburo members Cde Wang Gang visited the country where we signed an agreement covering a number of areas in terms of cooperation,” said Ambassador Moyo.
President Mugabe recently visited the World Expo held in China while Vice-Presidents Dr John Nkomo and Joice Mujuru visited that country to strengthen the relations.
“We are happy for China and as a party we will work flat out to implement lessons learnt from them especially in such areas as combating corruption.
CPC is one of the biggest political parties in the world, it started with only 50 members and now has about 80 million members who joined the party on qualification as opposed to merely carrying a card.”
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