{"id":41996,"date":"2020-09-09T08:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T08:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-diplomat-says-e-commerce-to-bolster-cooperation-with-china\/"},"modified":"2020-09-09T08:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T08:24:35","slug":"rwandan-diplomat-says-e-commerce-to-bolster-cooperation-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-diplomat-says-e-commerce-to-bolster-cooperation-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan diplomat says e-commerce to bolster cooperation with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Xinhua, a Chinese newspaper, Kimonyo said: &#8220;We are enjoying the best balance of cooperation with China in our history.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Two years before the services trade fair, Rwanda and China&#8217;s e-commerce giant Alibaba signed an agreement over the Electronic World Trade Platform (EWTP) that helps small and medium enterprises to digitally transact.<\/p>\n<p>Through the agreement, Rwandan products such as pepper and coffee are sold on various Alibaba sites such as Tmall, Taobao, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan coffee was recently sold to the Chinese market through a joint venture, where 1.5 tones were sold online in a few minutes. The event took place in a 10-minute talk entitled &#8220;National Treasure&#8221; on May 14, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kimonyo added that Rwandan coffee makers and marketers say they continue to receive requests from Chinese companies that want Rwandan coffee.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that small and medium enterprises have benefited from setting up a platform that enables them carry out e-commerce, reaching reach large and affordable markets.<\/p>\n<p>He said the creation of a total African market would be made up of over 1.2 billion people, which means that the African continent has opened its markets once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that China has quickly recovered from this (COVID-19) pandemic, which gives them hope, but also to the world, adding that, the more China grows, the more Africa become prosperous.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36717 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/67-34-d096b.jpg\" alt=\"Amb. Kimonyo says e-commerce has strengthened economic relations between  Rwanda and China\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda&#8217;s Ambassador to China James Kimonyo has observed that e-commerce has strengthened economic relations between the two countries, and will bind them even further as their cooperation takes roots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[204],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-elina-jonas-ruzindaza"],"bylines":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"contributors":[{"id":204,"name":"Elina Jonas Ruzindaza","slug":"elina-jonas-ruzindaza","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":103}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41996"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41996"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}