安哥拉：经济多样化发展机遇

安哥拉有约50人参加了第二届中国国际进口博览会，其中包括私营企业界人士、政府官员和公共企业代表。

为了从中国获得更多的私人投资，由贸易部长乔夫雷·范·邓尼姆率领的代表团于2019年11月7日举办了一个投资论坛，论坛上安哥拉投资和促进出口局（AIPEX）董事会主席桑德拉·迪亚斯·多斯桑托斯女士介绍了安哥拉目前的营商环境。

桑德拉·迪亚斯·多斯桑托斯女士介绍说，自2018年以来，若昂·洛伦索总统领导的政府一直在采取结构性改革措施，使安哥拉的经济能够实现多样化。

⬆安哥拉投资和促进出口局（AIPEX）董事会主席桑德拉·迪亚斯·多斯桑托斯女士介绍安哥拉目前的营商环境

投资便利化措施

这些措施包括批准贸易便利化协定、简化进出口手续和去除官僚作风以及提供具有吸引力的财政和税收优惠政策，其中包括针对开发区的一揽子激励措施。

安哥拉还通过并开始实施新的私人投资法、竞争法和其他立法，它们对保障企业活动、防止经济主体间不公平竞争和鼓励提升商品和服务的供应效率提供了法律依据。她说，从这些结构性改革举措和法律文件的生效可以看出，安哥拉政府在减少繁文缛节，增加市场对国内外投资者的开放程度方面的承诺和决心。

新的私人投资法制定了便利化的法规，鼓励并保障了企业的快速申请过程。同时它还取消了在安哥拉投资的强制性国家伙伴关系和在安哥拉创办企业的注册资金不得少于100万美元的规定。

除了支持经济发展的新法律框架外，安哥拉还拥有许多自然资源。而且它在非洲处于地缘战略的位置，这样投资者可以很容易地将其业务扩展到非洲大陆南部地区的其他市场，那里有超过3亿的消费人口。

为了吸引国内外私人投资者，安哥拉也正在简化投资和成立公司的流程，加速办理入境签证需要的时间，这一切都旨在实现经济的多样化发展，扭转外汇收入只能依靠出口原油的现状。

在这方面，安哥拉非常欢迎中国投资者积极参与到安哥拉的经济多样化、工业化和物流基础设施建设的进程中，同时也帮助安哥拉重新开始香蕉、咖啡、谷物、纺织品、木材、观赏石、水泥和鱼的生产和养殖，供国内消费和出口。

农业投资机遇

安哥拉不仅拥有5700多万公顷的森林，而且有着3500多万公顷的可耕地，土壤肥沃，是一个潜在的富庶农业国家。根据农业部长提供的最新官方数据，大约86%的耕地可提供给农业企业。对此，安哥拉投资和促进出口署进一步介绍，虽然土地属于国家所有，但如果公司在这里投资的话，土地的租赁期可以长达60年，而且到期还可以续租。

在农业方面，中国投资者有大量的投资机会，包括农作物生产、畜牧、农业机械、灌溉、能源、仓储、物流以及收获后再加工等领域。
安哥拉土地和气候的多样性使得投资者可以投资各类农产品，包括水果和蔬菜；谷物，比如小麦、黑小麦、水稻、玉米和高粱；豆类，比如田豆和豌豆；动物饲料和饲料作物；牧场和草场；种子作物；纤维作物，比如棉花；油料作物，比如向日葵和玉米。

农业和林业部报告说，比如，南宽扎省肥沃土壤就被证明极其适合种植蔬菜和水果；本格拉和万博省被认为是玉米和小麦的天然生长区；而北部的北宽扎、马兰热和威热等省则适合种植咖啡、棉花、甘蔗和香蕉。

林业商业化也是农业投资方面一个极具吸引力的选择，它主要集中在卡宾达、宽藤、库班戈和莫希科等省，可以考虑从事家具、生物能源、纸浆和纸张、锯材以及建筑和输电杆等可盈利和增值的与木材相关的产业。

桑德拉·迪亚斯·多斯桑托斯女士说，安哥拉的确是一个巨大的市场，对农业和与农业相关的业务感兴趣的中国投资者应当抓住这些尚未开发的机会，既可以为国内消费者制作和供应产品，又可以向其他任何地方出口。她还透露，在安哥拉生产然后向中国出口产品的中国投资者可以从刚签署的两国双边协议中获得益处，因为他们的产品在进入中国市场时不受配额的限制，也不需要缴纳关税。

渔业投资机遇

渔业被认为是保障安哥拉经济多样化的一种自然资源。渔业和海洋资源国务秘书卡洛斯·科迪罗在论坛上介绍说，中国投资者有机会在安哥拉的大西洋沿岸获得丰厚的投资回报。

安哥拉有1600公里的海岸线，在汤姆瓦（纳米贝省）、巴亚河（本格拉省）、安博伊姆港（南宽扎省）、罗安达、索约和卡宾达等地都拥有渔业商业化的基础设施，可是一直以来他们都因缺乏所需的设备和专业技术支持而苦恼。

安哥拉渔业部认为，鉴于鱼油受到化妆品和制药行业的高度追捧，鱼类衍生物的高额利润是显而易见的，而鱼粉则可被农民用作动物饲料。
最近有关安哥拉渔业的报告显示，除了严重缺乏大型渔船和加工厂外，全国各地的渔业在零部件和维修设施方面的配备也明显不足。中国私人投资者应当看好这一商机，同时也能帮助安哥拉振兴渔业。

⬆安哥拉纳米贝省渔港（CFP）

投资方式及重点领域

正如安哥拉投资和促进出口署的管理人员所强调的，中国投资者可以选择的投资方式非常多，他们可以与当地的业务伙伴合资，也可以独资；他们可以用现金投资，也可以用机械或设备作为投资，还可以以技术和专业知识的形式投资。
而且，投资者拥有选择投资领域的自由，包括农业、食品和农业工业、教育、技术和职业培训、高等教育、科学研究与创新、专业卫生机构和服务、渔业、矿产开采、木材、纺织品和鞋类、餐饮、旅游、电力、信息技术、电信、建筑和公共工程等这些被政府确定为优先发展的重点领域。

在论坛上，安哥拉贸易部长指出，目前，已经有200多家中国公司在安哥拉的多个经济领域开始了业务经营，但这仍未将两国经贸关系的潜力充分展现出来。安哥拉期望得到更多中国企业的投资，为安哥拉的经济多样化和发展做出贡献。

英文版

Angola:Investment and Business Opportunities

By Embassy of the Republic of Angola in China

Angola has attended the 2nd China International Import Expo with a delegation of about 50 people, among them private business people, government officials and public enterprises representatives.

Aiming to get more private investments from China, the delegation headed by the Minister of Trade, H.E. Joffre Van-Duném Junior, hosted an Investment Forum on November 7, 2019 at Pullman Hotel, in which the Administrator of the Angolan Agency of Investment and Promotion of Exports (AIPEX), Ms. Sandra Dias dos Santos, presented the ongoing business environment in the country.

Sandra Dias dos Santos explained that the Government under the leadership of President João Lourenço has been taking structural measures to diversify the country’s economy since 2018.

These measures include the ratification of the Trade Facilitation Agreement, the simplification and de-bureaucratization of imports and exports as well as attractive fiscal and tax benefits, which include incentive packages based on development zones.

She added that Angola also has implemented a new Private Investment Law and a new Competition Law and other legislations that outline principles and rules to safeguard the entrepreneurial activity, prevent unfair competitiveness among economic agents and encourage efficiency in the supply of goods and services.

With all these structural and legal instruments in force, she added, the Government of Angola shows its commitment and determination on increasing the openness of the country’s economy to domestic and foreign investors without red tape.

The new Law on Private Investment stipulates principles and grounds that facilitate, promote and ensures a speedy application process. Among other advantages, the new private investment law scrapes off the compulsory national partnership in the investments and the minimum value of one million United States Dollars to start business in Angola.

In addition to the new legal framework to support the economy, the country has many natural resources and its geo-strategic location in Africa allows investors to easily expand their business to other markets in the southern region of the continent, whose number of consumers is above 300 million.

Sandra dos Santos explained that Angola is also implementing the simplification of the process of investment and creation of companies and the facilitation and acceleration of the procedures for obtaining entry VISAs in order to encourage domestic and foreign private investors to join the efforts of diversifying the economy and the sources of forex earnings away from oil-crude. 

In this regard, Chinese investors are welcome to actively participate in the process of economic diversification, industrialization and strengthening of logistical infrastructures in the country and along the borders, as well as to help us in re-launching the production of bananas, coffee, cereals, textiles, wood, ornamental stones, cement and fish for domestic consumption and export.

⬆In Investment Forum , the Administrator of the Angolan Agency of Investment and Promotion of Exports (AIPEX),
Ms. Sandra Dias dos Santos, presented the ongoing business environment in the country

Agri-business Investment Opportunities

At the Forum, AIPEX informed that Angola has more than 57 Million hectares of forest and it is a potentially rich agricultural country with fertile soil and more than 35 million hectares of arable land. According to updated official records delivered by the minister of agriculture, about 86% of arable land is available for farming business.

AIPEX explains that although the land belongs to the State, the companies have 60 years to lease the land where they will implement their investment, and this lease process is renewable.

In this regard, Chinese investors have the opportunities to make substantial investments in targeted fields such as crops production, livestock, agricultural machinery, irrigation, energy, storage, logistics as well as post-harvest production services.

The variety of land and climate across Angola makes it possible for investors to bet on agricultural commodities including fruits and vegetables; grains, such as wheat, triticale, rice, corn and sorghum; legumes, such as field beans and peas; animal feed and forage crops; rangeland and pasture; seed crops; fiber crops such as cotton; oil crops, such sunflower and corn.

The ministry of agriculture and forestry has been reporting that the fertile soils of Kwanza Sul, for example, are proven to be extremely fertile in producing vegetables and fruits; Benguela and Huambo provinces are considered as natural habitat for maize and wheat, while the lands of Northern provinces of Cuanza Norte, Malanje and Uige are appropriate for coffee, cotton, sugarcane and bananas.

Commercial forestry is also an attractive alternative in agri-business investment, mainly in the provinces of Cabinda, Cuando Cubango and Moxico, taking into account the profitable value-added timber products of furniture, bio energy, pulp and paper, sawlogs as well as building and transmission poles.

Sandra dos Santos explained that Angola is indeed a huge market and Chinese investors interested in agricultural and farming business can seize these untapped opportunities to supply the domestic consumer and export to wherever they want to.

She revealed that Chinese investors who produce in Angola and export to China are benefited by the newly signed bilateral agreement that allow their products to enter into the Chinese market with zero quotas and free of tariffs.

Fishing Business and Investment Opportunities 

The fisheries sector has been identified as one of the natural resources available for Angola’s economic diversification and the Secretary of States for Fisheries and Maritime Resources, Carlos Cordeiro, explained at the Forum that Chinese investors have the opportunity to turn the country’s Atlantic coast into a good source of income.

Angola has 1600 kilometres coastline and has commercial fishing infrastructures in the municipalities of Tombwa, (Namibe Province) Baia Farta (Benguela province) Porto Amboim (Kwanza Sul province) Luanda, Soyo and Cabinda, but all of them have been struggling with the lack of equipment and know-how.

The Angolan ministry of fisheries believes that fish derivatives are well known as profitable, since fish oil is highly sought after by the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries; while fishmeal is used by farmers as animal feed.

The most recent of reports on Angola fisheries says that, apart from a critical lack of large fishing ships and processing factories, the fishing industry across the country also lacks spare parts and maintenance facilities and Chinese private investors can bet on this market and help Angola to revitalize its fisheries sector.

Such as stressed by the Administrator of AIPEX, Chinese investors have the right to choose the activity sector, starting their investment with or without a partnership with a local partner and the investment can be done in cash, machinery or equipment, technology or know-how.

Additionally, investors have the freedom of choosing the field of investment although of the fields of Agriculture, food and Agro-industry, Education, Technical and Vocational Training, Higher Education, Scientific Research/Innovation,  Specialized Health Units and Services,  Fishery, Mineral Extraction, Timber, Textiles and footwear, Hospitality, Tourism, electricity, information technology, telecommunications, Construction and Public Works have been set as government’s priority sectors for the economic development.

At the Forum, the Angolan Minister of Trade said that currently, more than two hundred Chinese companies already operate in various segments of the economy in Angola, but this still does not reflect the full potential of economic and trade relations between the two countries and Angola expects to get more businesspeople from China to invest and give their contribution to the economic diversification and development of Angola.  

编辑 | 张  梅

翻译 | 王晓波

设计 | 高  蕊