Prvega januarja prihodnje leto bo kitajski juan postal uradna valuta v Zimbabveju po pogovorih med obema vladama med državniškim obiskom kitajskega predsednika.
Zaradi tega bo kitajska valuta v Zimbabveju enaka ameriškemu dolarju, južnoafriškemu randu in bocvanski puli, pri čemer evro v tej enačbi ne bo igral nobene vloge, kar je morda oster opomin na negativnost, ki jo je Evropska unija pokazala proti Zimbabveju.
Kitajska je po obisku predsednika Xi JinPinga v državi pred časom postala največja trgovinska partnerica Zimbabveja in naložbe se širijo.
Looking East, after the windows to the West were locked by the Western powers, the remaining avenue to Zimbabwe, besides intra African trade, has come to export and import goods, and the use of the yuan is expected to facilitate this further. A write-off of loans worth 40 million US dollars helped Zimbabwe at the time to find a sounder economic footing again.
Chinese tourist numbers are growing as they are for Zambia and other neighboring countries, and Emirates is the one of the few airlines, besides Kenya Airways, offering daily connections from a number of Chinese cities via Dubai to Harare.
