Angolan provincial vice-governor Ernesto Kiteculo has hailed China’s contribution to the country’s economic development adding that future bilateral co-operation would further focus on training, Angolan news agency Angop reported.

Mr Kiteculo – who is Cuando Cubango province’s Vice-Governor for the Economic and Productive Sector – made the remarks while speaking this weekend to young cadres from the ruling party MPLA.

He was speaking about a new memorandum of understanding signed between China and Angola, during the Angolan President’s visit to China last month.

“More than [even] Chinese people coming to Angola, investing their money here, building infrastructures and going back to their country, they will also train Angolan professionals when they come to make their investments”, Mr Kiteculo explained, adding China was the right nation to continue to help Angola improve the quality of life of its citizens.

The Angolan Vice-Governor also mentioned – as quoted by Angop – the importance of the agreements signed with China in the fields of agriculture and transportation, as well as the relevance of a deal to build an oil refinery in Angola.

Besides further co-operation in education and training, the two countries, he said, had also signed a civil aviation agreement to improve Angola’s air traffic control capability.

In order to improve a legal framework to protect Chinese companies investing in Angola, the two sides had also signed an agreement on credit insurance, Mr Kiteculo added.