Namibia Woos Chinese Investors

20 February 2013

Windhoek — While Namibia has largely realized its political objectives of freeing itself from colonial domination, the same cannot be said for the country's economic imperative to change its status from being a supplier of raw, unprocessed resources to developed economies.

This Minister of Trade and Industry Calle Schlettwein, said this when he welcomed China's Minister of Commerce, Chen Deming, and his delegation who yesterday started their three-day official visit. In response, the visiting Chinese Minister, speaking through an interpreter, said he expects more Chinese companies to add value to raw products in Namibia.

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