China’s investment in Africa is reaching an all-time high. Businessmen from Ghana will now have reduced stress. This is because both countries have taken their trade relationship to a new level. Apart from Ghana’s Embassy office in Beijing, today, Ghana opened its Consulate General office in China ‘s commercial city of Guangzhou.
A Look At The New Consulate Office
- The Consulate General in Guangzhou is the first of its kind to be opened in Asia and the Far East, indicating the importance Ghana attaches to its relationship with China.
- With the opening of the office, Ghana joins 65 other countries with the consulate in Guangzhou.
- The Guangzhou Consulate-General of the Republic of Ghana, according to the Foreign Minister, has its Consular District covering the Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan Provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.
- The new consulate office in Guangzhou in the Province of Guangdong has now been opened to the public and will provide consular services similar to the services provided by the Embassy office in Beijing.
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“From today, the long journey these businessmen and women had to endure to go to Beijing for visas and other trade facilitation processes would be over since the Consulate-General is here to manage all these concerns,” the minister said.
“I believe this office is a good venue where business from Southern China and Ghanaian companies could meet. It is also to be used to promote a crucial agenda for foreign investments and international trade which face a fair amount of challenges,” Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway said.
The Guangdong Province is the economic hub of China with a population of over 106 million.
Ms. Botchway explained that Ghana is opening the office to support Ghanaian and Chinese businesses, to provide them with expeditious consular services and facilitate trade and investment promotion between the two countries.
Charles Rapulu Udoh
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