On September 6, the 8th China-Africa Entrepreneurs Conference was held in Beijing, with approximately 900 entrepreneurs from China and Africa in attendance. During the event, Mainland Group signed a $300 million tire plant project agreement with Côte d’Ivoire. In an interview with Hunan TV, Zhu Chen, Chairman of Mainland Group, said: “We will make every effort to connect the upstream and downstream parts of the industrial chain, create more jobs locally in Africa, and teach our industrial technology to local farmers.”