According to Ghana News on November 5th, Ghana is accelerating the deepening of its mining cooperation with China. Deputy Minister of Land and Natural Resources, Sulemana Yusif, led a Ghanaian delegation to pay ceremonial visits to key officials in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region before the opening of the China-ASEAN (Guangxi) Mining Cooperation Conference. The conference is scheduled to open in Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center on November 6th and will bring together government officials, mining enterprises and industry institutions from various countries to discuss investment opportunities, partnerships and mining cooperation.
Ghana's itinerary was quite specific: Yusif will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony and specially visit the Ghanaian national exhibition booth, which showcases the country's mining investment opportunities and strategic cooperation potential; he will also attend the Ghanaian national mining promotion session themed "Resource Synergy: Building the Industrial Chain", introducing Ghana's vision for building a more complete and high-value-added mining system. This arrangement echoes Ghana's recent policy direction: the government is promoting local processing and value-added of minerals and has repeatedly proposed phased restrictions on the export of raw minerals. The focus of mining cooperation has shifted from "dig and sell" to "keep the chain". For the Chinese side, Guangxi's location facing the ASEAN region and its mining equipment and smelting capabilities are complementary to Ghana's resource endowments. Whether the conference can reach specific project and financing arrangements will be more worthy of follow-up tracking than the opening remarks.
