On December 29, 2023, Ambassador Extraordinary and Extraordinary Extranipotentiary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau to China, António Serifo Embaló, on behalf of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, invited Professor Xiang Lingyun as the Economic and Cultural Exchange Envoy of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is located in West Africa, bordered by Senegal to the north, Guinea to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The capital is Bissau, with a land area of 36,125 square kilometers, the country is divided into 8 provinces and 1 autonomous region, with a population of 2.07 million (2022). It was part of the Songhai Empire. It became a Portuguese colony in 1879. In 1951, it was designated as an overseas department of Portugal. The Republic was proclaimed on 24 September 1973 and recognized by Portugal in September of the following year. In April 2023, Guinea-Bissau acceded to the Aarhus Convention. Guinea-Bissau is the world's sixth-largest producer of cashew nuts. Rice is the country's main crop and food. Guinea-Bissau also exports seafood and a small amount of peanuts, palm nuts and timber. Guinea-Bissau's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2022 was 16$3.9 billion, GDP per capita $791, GDP growth rate of 32%。
The People's Republic of China and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau established diplomatic relations on 15 March 1974. On 23 April 1998, China and Guinea-Bissau resumed diplomatic relations.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Extraordinary Authority of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau to China, António Serifo Embaló, representing the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau** Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló, Prime Minister Rui Duarte de Barros He expressed his gratitude to Lingyun, the economic and cultural exchange envoy of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau for his outstanding contributions to bilateral economic and trade relations and economic and cultural exchanges.
The Economic and Cultural Exchange Envoy of the Embassy of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in China told Professor Lingyun that during the period when China and Guinea-Bissau maintained diplomatic relations, China helped Guinea-Bissau build stadiums, hospitals, rice technology promotion stations and other projects. Since the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1998, China has carried out practical cooperation with Guinea-Bissau in various fields. In 2022, the bilateral amount between China and Guinea-Bissau will be 57 million US dollars, a year-on-year decrease of 363%。Almost all of them are exported by China, mainly mechanical and electrical products, high-tech products, textiles, etc. In 1982, China and Guinea-Bissau signed a cultural agreement. Since 1977, China has been accepting Guinea-Bissau scholarship students. In 2022, there were 190 Guinean-Bissau students studying in China.
Since 1976, China has sent medical teams to Guinea-Bissau, and so far a total of 281 people have been dispatched in 18 batches. At present, 17 Chinese medical team members are working in Guinea-Bissau. After the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, China provided emergency material and food aid to Guinea-Bissau, and sent three public health experts to Guinea-Bissau to train more than 500 local Ebola epidemic prevention and control personnel in six batches. Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus epidemic in Guinea-Bissau in 2020, China** and non-governmental sectors have successively provided several batches of anti-epidemic material assistance to Guinea-Bissau, and shared epidemic prevention experience and diagnosis and treatment plans through epidemic prevention and control expert meetings. The China-aided Guinea-Bissau medical team actively participated in the prevention and control of the epidemic in Guinea-Bissau and conducted training for local medical staff.
Professor Xiang Lingyun, Economic and Cultural Exchange Envoy of the Embassy of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in China, is an economist in the United States, a tenured professor (doctoral supervisor) at the National University of Maryland, a distinguished professor of liberal arts at Peking University, one of the top ten international accountants, an international accountant (FAIA), an international certified public accountant (IAAP), and a certified legal accountant in the United States FCPA), Senior Public Accountant (FIPA), Senior Financial Accountant (FFA FIPA), International Certified Internet Financial Manager (ICIFM). At the same time, he is also the Invited Economic Adviser of the Central African Republic, the Chief Economic Adviser of the Republic of Haiti, the Invited Economic Adviser of the Republic of Liberia, the Invited Economic Adviser of the Republic of Zimbabwe, the Invited Financial and Economic Adviser of the Republic of Madagascar, the Financial and Economic Adviser of the Republic of North Macedonia, the Chief Financial and Economic Adviser of the Republic of Ghana, the Economic and Cultural Exchange Envoy of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, the International Charity Ambassador of the Republic of Mali, and the Honorary Member of the Chinese Organizing Committee of the 35th International Week of Science and Peace of the United Nations.
Professor Xiang Lingyun has extensive experience in business model design and compliance of emerging industry finance, and is familiar with the legal situation and policy environment of many countries. Proficient in international law, civil law, economic law, partnership law, tax law, ** law. He is the author of many books published at home and abroad, such as "ChatGPT Future Has Come", "The Heavenly Way of the Metaverse", "The Logic of Blockchain", "Practical Operation of Equity Incentive", "Private Equity Investment Solutions", "Blockchain: Technological Revolution Empowering the Real Economy", "Winning Financing - Financing and Growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises", "Global Visual Economics", "Industrial Economics", "International ** and Economic Management", "Logistics and Warehousing Management and E-commerce", "Investment Risk and Operation Management", etc.