Hanafi calls on Chinese companies to open more to Arab countries

Dr. Khaled Hanafi, Secretary General of the Federation of Arab Chambers, said that given the evolution of the world and the existing trade wars, and at the initiative of the "Silk Road" launched by the Chinese president in 2013, it was urgent to strengthen logistic areas and ports. This will help sustain the Arab-Chinese strategic partnership.

Hanafi called on Chinese companies to open up more to Arab countries in order to forge lasting relations and to forge a strategic partnership with the Arab world by boosting investment in the areas of artificial intelligence, intelligence and intelligence. 3D printing and technological supply chains, which will benefit both Arabs and Chinese. The third Sino-Arab economic summit and the fourth China-Arab countries exhibition opened Wednesday in Yinchuan, Ningxia province.

He pointed out that Arab-Chinese economic relations have undergone major developments over the past decade. Today, the volume of trade between the two parties has exceeded 244 billion dollars, against 37 billion in 2006, and a common aspiration to reach this volume to 600 billion years to come. He pointed out that relations between China and Egypt were deep, the number of Chinese tourists in Egypt having increased by 60% in 2017 to reach 287,000 tourists by the end of the year , and that China's total investment in the Egyptian market at the end of 2017 and the Egyptian exports to China increased by 60% to about 408 million dollars in 2017, compared with about 255 million dollars in 2016.

The secretary general of the Federation of Arab Chambers pointed out that the Arab-Chinese exhibition is considered one of the largest and largest. It attracts a large number of participants representing the most important companies. It considers that direct meetings are needed to optimize relations between the two countries and establish a strategic partnership.