On August 18, an economic, trade, and investment matchmaking event for Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania was held in Changsha, alongside the launch of the Expansion Zone of the China-Africa Economic and Trade Headquarters. The Mingcheng Green Valley Smart Industrial Park was officially designated as part of the expansion zone. Leveraging the zone, the Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone will open up channels for overseas expansion and integrate multiple services such as customs clearance, business service, cross-border finance, and international expansion support. This aims to provide a standing service platform for African traders to seek partners in Hunan and for Hunan companies to enter African markets.

A number of industrial parks and cooperation projects in key African countries, including Ghana, Tanzania, and Mozambique, were promoted at the event. For example, the Ghana Oriental AI and Security Industrial Park focuses on AI and security-related industries; the East Africa (China) Industrial Park, or the Tanzanite Park, in Tanzania is positioned to dovetail with businesses in building materials, construction machinery, electromechanical and automotive products, home appliances, food processing, and modern logistics; and, the Mamba Special Economic Zone in Mozambique is designed for manufacturing, warehousing, trade, and integrated services, with investment opportunities open to building materials, light industry, agricultural processing, logistics, trade, and equipment manufacturing sectors.
  
Hunan is building a two-way China-Africa cooperation network centered on "one zone and 16 industrial parks," spanning both domestic and overseas locations. The zone is the China-Mozambique Economic Cooperation Zone. The 16 industrial parks include the East Africa (China) Industrial Park, the Ghana Oriental AI and Security Industrial Park, the Moamba Special Economic Zone and its affiliated parks in Mozambique, the eight industrial parks in the Savane Industrial and Special Economic Zone in Mozambique, the China-Africa (Hunan-Changsha) Circular Economy Industrial Base, and the Expansion Zone of the China-Africa Economic and Trade Headquarters.
 
"Hunan enterprises' cooperation with Africa is evolving from a standalone approach to a cluster-based model. This is organized by platforms, supported by industrial parks, and underpinned by services," said Zhao Wenjiao, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone. Leveraging the two-way "one zone and 16 industrial parks" network, Changsha's platform resources will help reduce upfront costs in market access, policy alignment, and cross-border services, while the industrial parks in Africa will provide on-the-ground solutions to the problems in facilities, logistics, supply chains, government relations, and daily operations. This integrated approach will help enterprises not only "go global" but also "settle in, perform well, and thrive."
  
The China-Africa Economic and Trade Headquarters is already home to more than 100 enterprises, with business spanning cross-border e-commerce, construction machinery remanufacturing, specialty agricultural products from Africa, mineral trade, energy storage, and new energy. It has become Hunan's key physical platform for economic and trade cooperation with Africa.

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

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: Hunan Daily