Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, has praised China’s rising partnership with Uganda, hailing it as historic and transformative.
Parliament on Tuesday 08, July 2025 welcomed the excessive-stage Chinese language delegation led by H.E. Jiang Zuojun, the Vice-Chairman of the Chinese language Of us’s Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Birthday party, in a pass expected to bolster legislative cooperation and economic collaboration between the two countries.
Whereas delivering his welcoming remarks, Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa flanked by a few Participants of Parliament commended President Xi Jinping and President Yoweri Museveni for strengthening ties between Kampala and Beijing.
“I dangle to love H.E. Xi Jinping, the President of the Of us’s Republic of China, for the extensive friendship he has exhibited in direction of Uganda in notify and Africa at extensive. His honest working relationship with H.E. President Museveni has ensured well-liked fashion of our country and our family participants are at a stage by no formula viewed sooner than,” he acknowledged.
Tayebwa also acknowledged China’s toughen in a few extreme sectors, together with infrastructure, effectively being, and exchange. He particularly necessary China’s contribution of anti-malaria medicine price 8 million Yuan, 50,000 COVID-19 making an strive out kits, and 600,000 vaccine doses on the peak of the pandemic.
“Certainly, China proved the frail asserting ‘a friend in need is a friend certainly’. This helped us to avoid wasting our of us,” Tayebwa necessary.
In the exchange sector, the Deputy Speaker highlighted Uganda’s rising exports to China but expressed order over the exchange imbalance, with Uganda exporting goods price US$54 million in 2024 in comparison with US$1.1 billion in imports.
“I attach a matter to for technical toughen so as that we can meet the predominant requirements within the rapid duration of time,” he appealed.
On behalf of the Chinese language delegation, H.E. Jiang Zuojun reaffirmed Beijing’s dedication to Africa and Uganda, describing current China-Africa family participants as the strongest in history.
“Fair as President Xi Jinping of China notes, the friendship of China and Africa transcends time and dwelling and is handed down via generations. Now China-Africa friendship is at its handiest, elevating to a China-Africa neighborhood with a shared future for a new generation,” Jiang acknowledged.
He necessary that Uganda is a key accomplice on the continent and that the partnership became elevated to a Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership following the 2023 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
Speaking at some level of the engagement, Nathan Nandala-Mafabi, MP for Budadiri County West, urged all sides to revisit previously abandoned exchange partnerships, especially in Uganda’s top export espresso.
“There became a firm called China Uganda, which became fashioned to deal in espresso, and I would factor in that firm must collected be revived whether it is some distance tiring, for motive of allowing espresso, which is our leading export, to enter the China market,” Nandala-Mafabi acknowledged, citing barriers in accessing the Chinese language market.
This meeting marks the main legitimate seek the advice of with by a delegation from the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Birthday party to the Ugandan Parliament, and all sides pledged to deepen bilateral and legislative ties for mutual fashion.
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SOURCE: Parliament of Uganda
