FIN Business Forum Angola has in Lusophony the basis for establishing business networks between entrepreneurs who share the same language (Portuguese) and who are spread across different markets on four continents: Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
It is a project of the Association of Young Entrepreneurs Portugal-China, which began in 2017, and whose main objective is to create a wide network of contacts between economic actors, with common values and goals, in the most varied business sectors, and which assumes an annual periodicity, focusing on the large markets of the territories and countries of these continents, advances the press release.
FIN Business Forum Angola will have the main working sessions on April 21, 2023, in the VIP Auditorium of the FILDA space, in the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone, and will be attended by the Minister of Economy, Mário Caetano João; from Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges; the governor of the Province of Luanda, Manuel Homem; the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Luanda-Bengo ZEE, Manuel Pedro; and the president of the Portugal-China Young Entrepreneurs Association, Alberto Carvalho Neto.
In addition to the various panels of presentations and debates, with special attention to key issues for Angola's economic development, such as energy production and water supply, the program also includes a visit to the facilities of the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone and the presentation of innovative projects by young entrepreneurs.
About the Luanda-Bengo ZEE
The Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone (ZEE) was created in 2009 and has its headquarters in the municipality of Viana, Luanda. It is an important pole of economic development that corresponds to the guidelines of the Strategic Plan of the Angolan Executive to produce more in Angola, increase exports, create jobs for the citizens of the Republic of Angola and attract private investment, national and foreign.
With a total area of 7,596 hectares, the Luanda-Bengo ZEE comprises the Viana Industrial Reserve and the Uala Agro-Industrial Reserve. The industrial reserve of Viana is implanted in an area of 4,718 hectares, where 157 industrial units are built, most of them dedicated to the production of foodstuffs and other manufacturing industries. Since the beginning of its operation, the ZEE has already generated more than 7 thousand direct jobs, in the overwhelming majority, for Angolans. The Uala agro-industrial reserve encompasses an area of 2,878 hectares and is still in the project development phase. The Luanda-Bengo EEZ is equipped with a high-quality infrastructure network unparalleled in Angola and in neighboring countries, and has a privileged location, very close to the new Luanda International Airport - the future aeronautical hub of Africa central, with capacity for the transit of 15 million passengers - in addition to being located in the center of essential road junctions in the Republic of Angola, and close to the Port of Luanda and the future deep water port of Barra do Dande. The premises of the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone also include a commercial hub, housing projects, services and other investments, which qualifies the Luanda-Bengo ZEE as a fundamental structure to boost and diversify the Angolan economy: www.zee.co.ao
About FIN Business Forum Angola
FIN Business Forum Angola is a project by AJEPC – Association of Young Entrepreneurs Portugal-China, which consists of creating a network of contacts based on Lusophony and whose main purpose is to unite businessmen and entrepreneurs from four continents who share a common language.
Held annually, FIN Business has four meetings in 2023. The first took place in March, in the city of Florianápolis, in Brazil. The sessions in Angola follow, on the 20th and 21st of April; in Mozambique, in the city of Maputo, on 5 May; in Braga, Portugal, on the 1st and 2nd of June; and in Macau, the Chinese city with special administrative status, whose FIN Business meeting will take place from 17 to 22 October 2023.
