President Goodluck Jonathan To Visit China Next Week
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will visit China next week in a trip aimed at signing infrastructure deals and boosting trade between the Asian power and Africa's biggest oil producer, officials said Wednesday.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, has borrowed money from China to finance infrastructure projects, and Beijing has shown increasing interest in Nigeria's oil industry.
Jonathan is expected in China from July 9-12.
"We want to build trade and economic relationships and we want to have a good exchange of knowledge," Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told reporters.
She said that the visit aims to "increase trade, get them to increase investment in Nigeria and get a strategic long-term relationship".
"We want to up our trade volume with China of non-oil goods. This is our objective because we want to diversify our economy," she said.
foxnews.com
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