Transferring Opportunities

Chinese business technology transfer provides benefits for Zambia

- Derrick Silimina

The drive for knowledge and technology transfer from China to Africa has taken central stage in recent times and the relationship runs much deeper than the one based on a trade of commodities.

As part of the realization that it is a “knowledge and technology transfer” approach that helped China become one of the major global economies, the Asian giant is employing training as one of the vital ways of skill and technology transfer to Africans.

Local training

In Zambia, some Chinese companies are providing training to its local employees mostly through formal programs such as mentoring and on-the-job training. For these reasons, Chinese investments in Zambia’s key economic sectors have continued to change people’s lives, especially the youth, with many direct and indirect jobs created.

Recently, Minister of National Development and Planning Alexander Chiteme reiterated his call to Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Li Jie to encourage Chinese companies operating in the country to transfer skills to locals.

“What we want to see as Zambians is skills being transferred from Chinese nationals and imparted to our people, so that we can learn and enrich our skills,” said Chiteme.