"China-Africa Friendship Messengers" on the Red Sea Coast"

"China-Africa Friendship Messengers" on the Red Sea Coast"
Source: China Economic Net-Economic Daily

Reporter: Shang Rui

In the video conference room of China-Africa TEDA, a subsidiary of TEDA Holdings in Tianjin Binhai New Area, two wall clocks hang, showing Beijing time and Cairo time respectively, reminding everyone here that at this moment there are still comrades fighting thousands of miles away. On the Sino-Egyptian TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone project.

"As of August 21, the total number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the Egyptian region has exceeded 97000, and the local epidemic prevention materials are in short supply and the risk of the epidemic spreading is high. Although all the people on the project are in a foreign land, they are high-spirited and have no regrets." Liu Aimin, secretary of the party branch of China-Africa TEDA, who has been working in the cooperation zone for nearly 200 days, introduced.

The China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, founded in 2007, is a national-level overseas economic and trade cooperation zone that has grown up under the common attention of the heads of state of China and Egypt. After more than 10 years of development and construction, it has gradually become an important platform for China-Egypt economic and trade cooperation and a demonstration project for China-Africa cooperation to jointly build the "Belt and Road.

On January 21, 2016, President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Sisi jointly unveiled the second phase of the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone project. In the past 4 years, the Tianjin State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission Party Committee has always kept in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and guided and organized state-owned enterprises in Tianjin to continue to increase development and construction from investment promotion, investment planning, industrial support, talent support, and policy preferences. The formation of a "horizontal cluster and lateral chain" industrial agglomeration in the park is expected to provide more than 40000 local employment opportunities.

At the time of the most serious epidemic, Tianjin SASAC Party Committee and TEDA Holding Group Party Committee, on the one hand, urgently dispatched epidemic prevention materials, coordinated health experts to guide daily epidemic prevention and psychological adjustment, on the other hand, to maintain efforts, strengthen coordination, through the "cloud" connection to set up the "Haihe-Red Sea" air corridor, domestic and foreign close cooperation, to fight, handed over a heavy report card.

At present, six projects in the park, including Hengtong and Caidie, have successively settled in the cooperation park. The 27000-square-meter bonded warehouse and commodity exhibition center were completed on schedule. Successfully sold 320000 square meters of land in the park; TEDA-Egypt Second-hand Car Trade Cooperation Agreement Signed......

Liao Liqiang, Chinese ambassador to Egypt, praised the cooperation zone: "This report card of the 'double war' of epidemic prevention and control and production safety has even more polished the business card of the star project!"
With the deepening of the "Belt and Road" cooperation, Tianjin state-owned enterprises have fully implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech. "Solidarity and cooperation is the most powerful weapon in the fight against the epidemic, and China will continue to fully support Africa's anti-epidemic action, and the convening of the special summit on solidarity and anti-epidemic is to use practical actions to fulfill its commitment to build a closer China-Africa community of destiny."

At the beginning of this year, when China's domestic epidemic was raging, the Tianjin SASAC Party Committee keenly judged that the overseas projects of municipal state-owned enterprises should attract great attention. Teda Holdings immediately video link is tense attack of the Central African Teda project, and in the first time set up an overseas epidemic prevention and control leading group, the development of epidemic prevention and control work plan, layer by layer decomposition and implementation.

In the Party branch of China-Africa TEDA Company in Egypt, the employees comprehensively compared the political, economic and cultural differences between China and Egypt, learned from the effective domestic epidemic prevention measures, and immediately promoted the implementation in the park. Take the enterprise to promote epidemic prevention knowledge, comprehensive killing strict temperature measurement, comprehensive deployment of epidemic prevention materials......

"Are you afraid of the epidemic?" In response to a question from a reporter from the Economic Daily-China Economic Net, Egyptian employee Asol smiled and said, "No, my Chinese brothers are doing a very good job in epidemic prevention and I trust them. Teda is where my dream began, and I want to protect it with all my strength."

With their sincerity and persistence, the employees who stick to the project have fought a beautiful battle of "epidemic" and played the spirit and spirit of Chinese enterprises. The solid and meticulous work of the project staff has been highly recognized by enterprises in the region, and has been fully affirmed by the Egyptian Ministry of Health after on-the-spot inspection. Major Egyptian media have reported the "TEDA experience" from China ". 85 enterprises and more than 4000 Chinese and Egyptian employees in the park are closely united, and this group of yellow-skinned "retrograde walkers" are cordially praised by Egyptian friends as "friendly messengers of a community with a shared future between China and Africa".

The epidemic is like a big test, which tests faith and loyalty, and quality and style. Now, after the hardening of the epidemic, a new chapter of Sino-Egyptian cooperation is slowly unfolding.