“We have lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty in China, and in Nigeria, there are 200 million with 100 million living below the poverty line.”
“The Chinese government is handing over this project to support Nigeria to develop a more modernised agricultural sector.”
Chinese ambassador to Nigeria Cui Jianchun says the China-Nigeria trade volume rose 7.1 per cent in the past year hitting $12 billion.
Mr Cui made this known in Abuja at the award ceremony of the 2022 China Image Drawing Competition among students in the FCT schools.
Beijing has striven to push back the blame for the spread of the global pandemic which broke out in Wuhan in December 2019.
