Qian said Beijing had made massive contribution to various fields in the Horn of African nation to foster economic and social development that would assist the country in acquiring political stability.
“The Chinese government has built over 80 infrastructural projects like hospitals, stadiums and roads to ease the burden of the Somali people. We have dispatched a medical team of more than 400 members in 13 batches to the country since 1991,” he said in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, during celebrations to mark the 68th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Speaker of the Somalia’s House of People, Mohamed Osman Jawari, congratulated the Chinese government on the occasion and shared his country’s best wishes to the Far East nation.
“Relations between Somalia and China commenced in 1960 after we attained independence, and ever since we signed our first official trade agreement in 1963, the Somali people have been beneficiaries of Chinese benevolence in the areas of maternal and child care as well as other infrastructural largess,” Jawari said.
Somalia has been dogged by an Islamist war waged by terror group al-Shabaab for almost a decade. The conflict that has destroyed massive property, leaving Somalia’s development adversely affected.
With China’s contribution however, the country is slowly getting back to its feet.
