Chinese investors eye Manicaland

Story by ZBC Reporter

THERE is renewed appetite to invest in Manicaland province after a Chinese firm poured more than US$5 million into a quarry mining and brick moulding project in Dora area.

The Chinese investors are setting up a Wattle Resine processing plant, quarry and brick moulding plant.

The investors and office of Manicaland Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution toured the projects in Dora area this Thursday.

“We love Manicaland. We have invested in the forestry industry and we are investing in quarry mining. We started working on the first project in 2022 and our investment is around US$3 million. This factory will be operational in less than nine months. We have purchased eight containers of equipment and five have arrived at the Beira port and in less than two weeks the equipment will be here. We hope to produce 500 tonnes of quarry per day,” said the investors’ representative, Jiang Yang.

The Director for Economic Affairs and Investment in the Office of Manicaland Minister of State, Mr Munyaradzi Rubaya outlined the scope of the new investments.

“Currently, we have five investors who are already establishing in the province. Son Yuan is setting up a Wattle Resine processing plant in Manicaland. We have Xing Xing stone private limited which is going to set up a quarry and brick moulding plants in Dora. The Public Service Commission Pension Fund is going to set up another dry port to handle imports into the country in Mutare city. Another Chinese company is keen to set up a noodles processing plant in Mutare. They are also going to expand the sesame production project mainly in the area around Odzi for us to boost our exports of sesame to China,” he said.

Other transformative investments in Manicaland province include Maxmind Lithium project in Buhera, Mega Market milling plant in Mutare and Medical Oxygen and Acetylene gas plants at Feruka, among others.