China may help Mozambique establish industrial parks – in order to help modernise the African nation’s agricultural industry and speed industrialisation there – said Nyeleti Mondlane, Mozambique’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation.

She made the remarks last week on the sidelines of a meeting in Beijing that aimed to analyse the practical results – achieved so far – from last year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, held at the Johannesburg Summit and 6th Ministerial Conference in South Africa, online media Macauhub reported.

Ms Mondlane said support from industrial parks could help Mozambique shift from subsistence agriculture into a modern and sustainable form of food production. China had pledged to implement more than a hundred projects in Africa for agricultural modernisation, as well as to dispatch 30 teams of experts to African nations, she added.

China’s President Xi Jinping had announced in the Johannesburg meeting – held in December 2015 – that China would offer US$60 billion to Africa to help fund new co-operation and development programmes across 10 sectors in the following three years.