On 9 September 2026 Beijing time, Abou Dosso, Ambassador of Côte d’Ivoire to China, and Gomun Kouya Bertin, Commercial Counsellor at the Embassy of Côte d’Ivoire in China, visited Mainland Group’s Hunan headquarters. They were received by Zhu Chen, Chairman of Mainland Group, Zhou Weihua, Deputy General Manager, Yan Jinsong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Yueyang Guansheng Investment Development Co., Ltd., and Deputy General Managers Fan Zemeng and Deng Xiaoxia. The two sides held a discussion on enterprise development, industrial layout and future cooperation.

Côte d’Ivoire is an important region for Mainland Group’s overseas business cooperation. As a major natural rubber producer in Africa, Côte d’Ivoire is endowed with exceptional rubber resources. Since entering the market, Mainland Group has focused on natural rubber processing, establishing five large-scale factories. Once fully operational, their total designed annual capacity will reach 480,000 tonnes.

At the discussion, Chairman Zhu Chen said that globalisation is an important development direction for Mainland Group. Over the years, the Group has closely cooperated with Guansheng Group, steadily expanding overseas markets and establishing industrial positions in many countries including Côte d’Ivoire, Tanzania and Uganda in Africa, as well as Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam, continuously improving its industrial chain layout and steadily advancing overseas business implementation. In the process of overseas expansion, the Group has achieved practical results while also facing the real challenges of cross-border operations. The company looks forward to strengthening coordination with relevant departments, resolving practical difficulties and enabling industrial cooperation to go deeper and produce concrete results.

Chairman Zhu Chen said that Côte d’Ivoire has outstanding locational advantages, a favourable business environment and broad development opportunities. Mainland Group is fully confident in the Côte d’Ivoire market and looks forward to building smoother communication channels with the other side, exploring more cooperation opportunities around policy alignment, industrial co-construction and financial empowerment, promoting the synergistic development of enterprise growth and local economy, and achieving mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.

Yan Jinsong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Yueyang Guansheng Investment Development Co., Ltd., said during the exchange that Mainland Group and Yueyang Guansheng Investment Development Co., Ltd. have maintained sound cooperation for a long time, continuously deepening collaboration in overseas business expansion and project investment, and jointly promoting the implementation of a number of industrial projects. As overseas business advances, it places higher demands on the local policy environment, administrative services and project construction. This face-to-face exchange with the Embassy of Côte d’Ivoire in China has provided a good opportunity for the enterprise to better understand local policies and reflect practical demands. He hoped that both sides would use this exchange as a link to further strengthen communication and alignment, conduct in-depth discussions on issues of concern to the enterprise such as taxes and fees, customs and project investment, actively seek solutions, and create more stable and convenient conditions for the development of the company’s projects in Côte d’Ivoire.

Ambassador Abou Dosso spoke highly of Mainland Group’s achievements in deeply cultivating the Côte d’Ivoire market and supporting local industrial construction, and expressed appreciation for the development results the company has achieved locally. He said that the purpose of this visit was to gain a direct understanding of the real operating status of Mainland Group’s projects in Côte d’Ivoire. The Côte d’Ivoire government attaches great importance to investment and development by Chinese-funded enterprises, will continue to pay attention to the practical demands and difficulties faced by enterprises in their operations, strengthen two-way communication and coordination, and lay a solid foundation for the long-term and steady development of enterprises in the country.

This meeting built an important bridge for efficient government-enterprise dialogue. In the future, Mainland Group will continue to firmly advance its global development pace, deepen industrial co-construction relying on its rubber processing main business, and work together to paint a new blueprint for China-Africa cooperation.