Middle-income hopes for Uganda by 2020

ENTEBBE, Uganda: China and Chinese companies are helping Uganda achieve its dream of reaching middle-income status by 2020, minister of state for works, Edward Katumba, said on Tuesday.

Chinese companies are the leading executor of most of Uganda’s flagship projects like the Entebbe airport expansion and the Kampala-Entebbe expressway. “Uganda highly welcomes their contribution to this country in infrastructure,” he added.

“The projects conducted by Chinese companies are worth the cost, because of the quality of work. Also, Chinese companies employ a lot of local people, and are transferring skills to them.”

Katumba said China and Chinese companies were participating in Uganda’s development process.

“They are helping us to achieve our dream, because our dream is to turn this country into middleincome status by 2020.” – Xinhua