Kenya team, Chinese city reap a rich harvest at Linyi fair

The 9th China (Linyi) International Trade and Logistics Fair turned into a bonanza for a group of African and Chinese business people at a business expo in East China's Shandong province.

"Our Kenya team ordered 60 20-foot shipping containers of building materials and commodities and signed several letters of intent for the procurement of other products at the fair", said Liu Zongguo, general secretary of Kenya Shandong Chamber of Commerce, who led 16 Kenyan purchasers and exhibitors to the fair, which was held Sept 22 to 25 in Linyi, East China's Shandong province.

According to Zhan Dong, vice chairman of the Kenya Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the most popular goods from Africa are wine, black wood sculptures, coffee and tea. Zhan also is chairman of the Kenya Shandong Chamber of Commerce and runs a large-scale supermarket in the China Center of Nairobi, focusing on exporting Chinese commodities to Kenya, and vice versa.