On the afternoon of June 16, 2026 local time, Zhu Chen, Chairman of Mainland Group, paid a courtesy call on Yin Chengwu, Chinese Ambassador to Liberia, and delivered a special briefing on the Group’s investment layout and progress of agricultural projects across Liberia.

Group photo of Yin Chengwu, Chinese Ambassador to Liberia, and Zhu Chen, Chairman of Mainland Group

During the briefing, Chairman Zhu Chen elaborated on Mainland Group’s full industrial layout in Liberia and its latest on-the-ground achievements. Rooted in Liberia’s characteristic agricultural sectors, Mainland Group devotes itself to the full industrial chain development of rubber, rice, cassava, and coffee, and plans to set up a special support fund for agricultural cultivation. Supported by large-scale planting bases, improved seed breeding and rural agricultural technical training, the Group implements the “Enterprise + Farmer” cooperation model. It will effectively help local farmers reduce planting risks and secure stable income growth, continuously improve the layout of the full agricultural industrial chain, empower local economic development through real industries, and put into practice the vision of mutually beneficial China-Africa cooperation.

Ambassador Yin Chengwu fully recognized Mainland Group’s development path of taking root in Liberia and advancing industrial cooperation between China and Africa. He stated that China and Liberia elevated their relations to a strategic partnership in 2024, ushering in a brand-new era for bilateral economic and trade exchanges. China offers preferential zero-tariff policies for agricultural products from African countries having diplomatic relations with China, which brings major development opportunities for China-Africa economic and trade cooperation. Benefiting from such policy dividends, Liberia’s trade with China maintains robust growth, and the strengths and development potential of its local characteristic agricultural exports to China continue to be unleashed.

Ambassador Yin Chengwu also pointed out that Liberia boasts abundant agricultural resource endowments, yet it is currently confronted with industrial weaknesses including insufficient agricultural product processing capacity and an imperfect standardized production system, which also represent key breakthrough points for the transformation and upgrading of local agriculture. He stated that the Chinese Embassy in Liberia will fully support Mainland Group’s investment and operation in the country. The Group is encouraged to leverage its industrial and technological strengths, seize policy opportunities, help Liberia shore up industrial weaknesses, promote high-quality local agricultural products to enter the Chinese market, and jointly foster a sound development pattern featuring “trade – investment – industrial upgrading – expanded exports”.

This meeting further deepened the consensus on government-enterprise coordination. Going forward, Mainland Group will firmly seize the policy opportunities under the China-Liberia strategic partnership, accelerate the construction and launch of all agricultural projects, and promote the high-quality development of China-Africa economic and trade cooperation with tangible deliverables.