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Lusaka (AFP) Jan 9, 2011 Hui Liangyu, a Chinese vice premier in charge of agriculture, arrived in Zambia on Sunday on the second leg of a five-country African tour, a Chinese embassy official said. Hui flew into southern Livingstone, some 450 kilometres (270 miles) south of the capital, and was to President Rupiah Banda and Vice President George Kunda in Lusaka on Monday. "He will meet the president at State House and sign some agreements," Chinese embassy official Wang Zhongyu told AFP. Hui will also attend the sod-turning ceremony of the new Lusaka stadium which is being built by the Chinese and the opening of a representative office of the China-Africa Development Fund. He leaves Zambia on Tuesday for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon and Senegal after having first visited the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. The tour ends on January 19.
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