The China-Zambia Relationship

A mine run by a chinese firm refused to engage in an retrenched, retrenchment, ike layoff or anything like that. Because they didn't just want the profit from the copper. They wanted the copper. Andlese: There were some successes there that were not matched in mines run by other sources of global capital. Other example was a zambin government for some time has wanted to try to move up the value chain in the copper industry. It was, again, a chinese state on enterprise. i think, with a co operation from the chinese state, that came through with some long term investments where these value added industries would have a chance to build