China and Ghana celebrated their 62nd anniversary of the signing of a friendship treaty in Ghana’s capital, Accra, late Friday, marking a long-lasting and beneficial friendship between the two countries.
During the celebration, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Lu Kun stated in a statement that China and Ghana have always been very good friends and that the two countries would work harder to facilitate people-to-people exchanges.
According to Aikins Abrokwa, director of the Asia and Pacific Bureau at Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Cooperation, engagements between Ghana and China have been mutually beneficial over the years.
“The frequent engagements by Ghanaian and Chinese officials at the bilateral and multilateral levels have yielded very concrete dividends in recent times, including boosting trade relations, with Chinese investments in various sectors such as manufacturing and energy, agriculture, and the service sector recording considerable growth,” said Abrokwa.
He commended the Chinese government for demonstrating true friendship by responding positively to the request by the Ghanaian government to restructure its debt, resulting in the country securing a 3-billion-U.S.-dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund.
The director also commended the Ghana-China Friendship Association (GHACHIFA) for driving an agenda for enhanced cooperation between the two countries.
Anani Demuyakor, the chairman of GHACHIFA and former Ghanaian ambassador to China, told Xinhua there is a need to move the relationship between the two countries to another level.
“China-Ghana relations have been improving since immemorial, but now we have to inject some new blood and vigor for us to go even higher,” said Demuyakor.
China and Ghana established diplomatic relationship in 1960, and the two countries signed the friendship treaty the following year.