The MOROCCO-CHINA STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

1. Done by
OMAR EL-AZRAK

2.  Introduction
 China’s economy power
 Trade between Morocco and China
 The strategic partnership ( Morocco – China )
 Projects in the future
 Conclusion

4. Morocco was the second African country to establish diplomatic
relations with Beijing in November 1958. Since then China and
Morocco agree on most international affairs and have established
relations of sovereignty.
Then a bilateral relationship between Morocco and China was
established, and despite the big geographical distance, the two
countries have a long history of exchange, low at the beginning, but
since the 90s, the volume of trade does not stop to grow and cover
several fields: economic, industrial, cultural and political.

6. Chinese FOREIGN investments ranking
worldwide CHINESE INVESTEMENTS

7. China is Morocco’s fourth largest trading partner after Spain,
France, and the United States.
Morocco is China’s seventh largest trading partner in Africa.

8.  Since 1999, we find that there is a big imbalance between China and
Morocco in terms of trade.
 China has experienced a strong growth in terms of exports to Morocco, to
become the 3rd supplier with nearly 3.10 billion U.S. $, behind France
(8.8billion U.S. $) and Spain (5billion U.S. $)
 Morocco remains timid in its exports to China and record only 0.35 billion
U.S. $ which are mainly phosphate fertilizers, electrical products, fish and
scrap copper

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36%
12%19%
6%
5%
22%
The structure of exportations from Morocco to China
Integrated circuits and electronical
cards
Textile
Phosphate and its derivatives
Fertilizer
Agricultural products
Diverse products

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35
6
5.516
17.5
20
The structure of exportations from china to Morocco
Machines and high tech products
Vegetables
Tea
Textile
Diverse products
Finished et half-finished products

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Strategic partnership Morocco-China
On May 11(2016), Moroccan King Mohammed VI visited Beijing and
signed a new “strategic partnership” with his counterpart, Chinese President
Xi Jinping
Strategic Partnership domains ;
Renewable energy, telecoms, and industry — among other forms of
potential exchange, including the realms of education, cultural, and tourism
Morocco is a natural place for China to look at as a gateway to Africa

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Morocco is working on a $10 billion project with the Chinese group Haite to develop
an industrial city that will host some 300,000 locals.
Chinese telecom giant Huawei is planning to install its new regional headquarters for
the French-speaking Africa in Casablanca
Power Construction Corporation of China, one of the country's largest hydro and
thermal power project providers in terms of both revenue and overseas market share,
will complete the world's largest solar plant by energy output－the Noor complex solar
plant－in Morocco by 2018
Morocco will bring in China's high-speed railway technology, and will co-construct a
300-km long high-speed railway in the southwest part of the country from Marrakech to
Agadir
PROJECTS IN THE FUTURE

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Conclusion
China has big dreams. Morocco too aims high. Sensing the need for more
partners and diversified markets as the North African Kingdom is becoming
also a regional player and growing power in Africa