Morocco and China maintain a strong and long-standing economic partnership, based on mutual trust, complementarity, and a shared ambition to strengthen trade and investment cooperation, said Chakib Alj, President of the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (CGEM), on Thursday in Casablanca.

“Morocco and China enjoy a sustainable partnership,” Alj emphasized during a meeting with a delegation from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), noting that China is today one of Morocco’s most important economic partners.

The economic meeting served as a practical platform for dialogue, connecting operators, and identifying new partnership opportunities, in a context marked by largely untapped potential between the two economies, he added, highlighting the promising prospects of deepening bilateral business relations.

Aligned with the Belt and Road Initiative, to which Morocco was the first North African country to join, this cooperation is supported by the deep economic transformation the Kingdom has undertaken over the past two decades.

Thanks to world-class infrastructure, strategic logistics platforms, and integrated industrial ecosystems in high-value sectors, Morocco is positioning itself as a reliable and competitive industrial and investment hub, offering Chinese companies privileged access to African, Mediterranean, and global markets.

For his part, CCPIT President Ren Hongbin stated that his institution, as China’s largest trade and investment promotion agency, has been working for decades to strengthen economic and commercial relations between China and Morocco.

“The CCPIT has been a pioneer in bilateral business relations, signing the first Sino-Moroccan trade agreement in 1958, the year diplomatic relations were established between the two countries,” Ren said.

Regarding economic prospects, he noted that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the strategic partnership between China and Morocco. China remains, for many years, Morocco’s third-largest global trade partner and its largest in Asia. Bilateral trade reached $10 billion in 2025, up 21.2% year-on-year.

He also highlighted the growing popularity of high-quality Moroccan products in the Chinese market, particularly agri-food and cosmetics, alongside rising Chinese investments in Morocco in key industrial sectors, such as new energies and automotive batteries, creating thousands of local jobs.

Additionally, cooperation is expanding in emerging areas such as electric vehicles, high-tech textiles, digital economy, and low-carbon development, with key projects including Casablanca Finance City and Tanger Tech City.

Both sides expressed their shared desire to further strengthen exchanges between the business communities of the two countries and to leverage existing cooperation mechanisms to elevate the Morocco-China economic partnership to a higher level, fostering mutually beneficial and sustainable development.