In an interview, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo said President Mnangagwa and Chinese President Xi Jinping had signed three new agreements.
He said Mnangagwa and Xi Jinping signed agreements on exchanging prisoners, citrus fruit imports and donation of 500 boreholes. Said Moyo:
The first agreement was that of immigration and that agreement was meant to have the possibility and provide a framework of exchanging prisoners who would have committed offences on either side. The second agreement was to do with the commitment by the Chinese side to import citrus fruits from Zimbabwe. The obligation will obviously remain with our producers here in Zimbabwe to be able to generate adequate produce which should satisfy the demand of China. One of the issues that was discussed was a possibility of reverse investment integration, where the market itself, which is the Chinese, would come back here and support the producers in order to create capacity of products to be exported to China. We already have the precedence of contract farming in the tobacco sector. The last agreement was that of 500 boreholes which were donated by the Chinese Government and these boreholes are meant to supplement water to areas which are experiencing a deficiency. We have had previous support of around 300 boreholes and now they have added 500 boreholes.
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China is known to send its prisoners to work in other countries, maybe we will also benefit from this agreement. At times its good to copy from other developed countries.