Zim-China universities set up research centre

Mashonaland West Bureau Chief

Zimbabwe should leverage on the existing solid China-Africa relations to promote innovation and industrialisation through harnessing and nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit among its youths in universities, University of Zimbabwe vice-chancellor Professor Paul Mapfumo has said.

Speaking at the launch of the China-Africa Joint Research Centre for Exchanges and Mutual Learning between Civilisations at the University of Zimbabwe, Professor Mapfumo said the research centre will facilitate research that will promote innovation, entrepreneurship and start-up ventures.

It is a collaboration between the University of Zimbabwe and the Renmin University of China, mooted in 2023.