Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and governor of Hunan Province, met in Changsha with Robinah Nabbanja, prime minister of the Republic of Uganda, and her entourage on June 12, 2025. They came to attend the Fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE).

Wu Lan, secretary of the CPC Leadership Group and deputy director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Hunan Province, also attended.

Governor Mao meets with Ugandan Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja.

Uganda is located in the eastern part of Africa, straddling the equator, with a land area of 241,600 square kilometers and a population of 47.25 million. The country is dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, is rich in fishery resources, and primarily exports coffee, aquatic products, and tobacco. In April 2003, Changsha and Entebbe of Uganda, knotted a friendship city relationship, marking the first pair of its kind since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Uganda.

The meeting.

Governor Mao welcomed the guests, noting that in the context of jointly building an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era, Hunan and Uganda have had increasingly frequent communication and exchanges in recent years. Both sides have achieved fruitful cooperation results in such fields as the economy, trade, culture, and tourism. In 2019, Uganda served as the guest country of honor at the First CAETE. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni led a delegation to Hunan, opening a new chapter for the development of a mutual relationship. Uganda's Karuma Hydropower Station and other projects, undertaken by the Sinohydro Engineering Bureau No. 8 Co., Ltd., a central enterprise settled in Hunan, have been renowned in Africa.

The governor expressed the hope that both sides will jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and the outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Governor Mao called for making good use of CAETE and other platforms for opening up to further extend exchange and collaboration in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure construction, and new energy. We may form a good pattern of making "two-way efforts" to enrich the China-Uganda comprehensive strategic partnership, he added.

Prime Minister Nabbanja remarked that Hunan and Uganda have long shared brotherly friendship. Hunan has given great assistance to Uganda in infrastructure construction, medical education, and other fields. The friendly exchanges between both sides are a vivid testimony to the profound friendship between China and Africa. Uganda hoped to learn from Hunan's experience in modern agriculture, industrial manufacturing, and industrial park construction, to strengthen pragmatic cooperation and inject new vitality into the traditional friendship between Uganda and China.

Photos taken by Liu Shangwen.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn. 

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn