en.Wedoany.com Reported - From June 1 to 2 local time, Ni Zhen, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Energy Engineering Corporation (CEEC), met with Côte d'Ivoire Prime Minister Robert Beugré Mambé in Abidjan and conducted a series of business activities in the country.

On June 2, Ni Zhen met with Prime Minister Mambé. Both sides engaged in in-depth discussions on actively implementing the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, promoting the deep alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with Côte d'Ivoire's 2026-2030 National Development Plan and the 2030 Vision, systematically deepening practical cooperation in areas such as energy and power, comprehensive transportation, and water conservancy and water affairs, and accelerating the implementation of cooperation outcomes.

Mambé expressed gratitude for CEEC's contributions to Côte d'Ivoire's economic and social development. He noted that 2026 marks the China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges and the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Africa, bringing greater opportunities for economic and trade cooperation between Côte d'Ivoire and China. Côte d'Ivoire is accelerating the improvement of its infrastructure and promoting the transformation and upgrading of its energy structure. He expressed hope that CEEC would focus on Côte d'Ivoire's needs, continue to increase investment and business efforts in key areas such as energy and power, water conservancy and water affairs, comprehensive transportation, and computing power collaboration, and create more benchmark projects. The Côte d'Ivoire government will provide active support for CEEC's development in the country.

Ni Zhen thanked the Côte d'Ivoire government for its long-standing strong support for CEEC. He stated that CEEC has always regarded Côte d'Ivoire as a core overseas strategic market, actively participating in the investment and construction of energy, power, and infrastructure in the country, achieving significant results. CEEC is willing to fully leverage its integrated advantages across the entire industrial chain to carry out more comprehensive, in-depth, and practical cooperation with all parties in Côte d'Ivoire in areas such as new power systems, new energy and gas turbine projects, water conservancy and water affairs, transportation-energy integration, and green computing power collaboration, accelerating the implementation of key projects and jointly promoting the upgrading of mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Côte d'Ivoire.

On June 1, Ni Zhen held talks with Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, Minister of Mines, Oil, and Energy of Côte d'Ivoire. Coulibaly noted that Côte d'Ivoire is vigorously promoting investment and construction in the energy sector, striving to become a West African energy hub. He expressed anticipation for CEEC to continue increasing its investment and construction efforts in the country, and stated that the Ministry of Energy will fully support CEEC's development in Côte d'Ivoire. Ni Zhen stated that CEEC is willing to leverage its advantages as a national-level think tank, its full industrial chain, and its investment-construction-operation integration to deepen cooperation with all parties in Côte d'Ivoire, focusing on key areas such as power planning and new energy development, to help Côte d'Ivoire build a modern energy system and consolidate its position as a West African energy center.

On the morning of June 2, Ni Zhen met with Wu Jie, Chinese Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire. Wu Jie stated that Côte d'Ivoire enjoys political stability and rapid economic development, and bilateral relations between China and Côte d'Ivoire continue to deepen, providing a favorable environment for economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. He expressed hope that CEEC would continue to strengthen its role as a central state-owned enterprise, advance ongoing projects to high standards, actively fulfill social responsibilities, deepen localization integration, tell the stories of Chinese enterprises well, and continuously elevate practical cooperation between China and Côte d'Ivoire to new levels. Ni Zhen stated that CEEC will closely align with Côte d'Ivoire's development plans, leverage its full industrial chain advantages, continue to increase local investment and construction efforts, strictly adhere to compliant operations and faithful contract performance, build high-quality benchmark projects to high standards, solidify the foundation for high-quality overseas development, and earnestly fulfill the responsibilities of a central state-owned enterprise to serve major-country diplomacy.

On the afternoon of June 2, Ni Zhen held talks with Amédé Kouakou, Minister of Infrastructure and Road Maintenance of Côte d'Ivoire. Kouakou stated that Côte d'Ivoire is accelerating the modernization of transportation infrastructure, striving to build a comprehensive transportation network connecting land and sea, ensuring interconnectivity, and consolidating its position as a West African transportation hub. The projects undertaken by CEEC in Côte d'Ivoire are of high quality and progressing smoothly. He expressed hope that CEEC would continue to increase resource investment, actively participate in more key transportation projects, and promote advanced technologies and experience. Ni Zhen stated that CEEC is willing to leverage its innovative advantages in transportation-energy integration, deeply align with Côte d'Ivoire's transportation development plans, actively explore green transportation cooperation, widely participate in the construction of key transportation projects, and promote the steady and long-term development of practical cooperation between the two sides.

During his stay in Côte d'Ivoire, Ni Zhen also held in-depth discussions with Amadou Bakayoko, President of the Iragnof Group, on deepening cooperation in new energy investment, water development, and engineering construction, and conducted a field survey of the Abidjan Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.

Li Lihong, General Manager of the Investment and Industry Department of CEEC; Guan Yunhang, Director of the General Office; Zuo Zhong, General Manager of the International Business Department; Hu Ming, Party Secretary and General Manager of the Electric Power Planning and Engineering Institute; Qiao Xubin, Party Secretary and Chairman of the International Group; Ni Hai, Party Secretary and Chairman of the Northeast Electric Power Design Institute; Wu Haijun, Party Secretary and Chairman of Gezhouba Municipal Engineering Company; and responsible persons from relevant CEEC-affiliated enterprises operating in Côte d'Ivoire participated in the above activities.

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