Kom den 1. januar næste år bliver den kinesiske yuan en officiel valuta i Zimbabwe efter drøftelser mellem de to regeringer under et statsbesøg hos den kinesiske præsident.
Dette vil gøre den kinesiske valuta lig i Zimbabwe med den amerikanske dollar, den sydafrikanske rand og Botswana pula, hvor euroen ikke spiller nogen rolle i denne ligning, måske en skarp påmindelse om den negativitet, Den Europæiske Union har vist mod Zimbabwe.
Kina er blevet Zimbabwes største handelspartner, og investeringerne udvides efter præsident Xi JinPings besøg i landet for nogen tid siden.
Looking East, after the windows to the West were locked by the Western powers, the remaining avenue to Zimbabwe, besides intra African trade, has come to export and import goods, and the use of the yuan is expected to facilitate this further. A write-off of loans worth 40 million US dollars helped Zimbabwe at the time to find a sounder economic footing again.
Chinese tourist numbers are growing as they are for Zambia and other neighboring countries, and Emirates is the one of the few airlines, besides Kenya Airways, offering daily connections from a number of Chinese cities via Dubai to Harare.
