President Magufuli, banned sand minerals exporting

President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, has banned commercial sand mining abroad and want all the sand has to be done right here in solubility. President Magufuli has issued the denial today while laying the foundation stone of the factory to manufacture tiles (tiles) of Goodwill Tanzania Ceramic Company Limited located in Mkuranga District. Speaking after visiting the factory, the Hon. Magufuli thanked the management of the factory to the investment and expressed his appreciation for technology.

"This country we manipulated enough, now here you melt sand to temperatures 1000 while others are transporting sand out of the country when the heating his need to reach even temperature 1,000. I request Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment and the Ministry of Energy and Mines currently banned from exporting sands abroad "stressed Hon. Magufuli.

The factory is a large East and Central Africa that its construction has cost US $ 50 million for the first phase will be able to produce 80,000 square meters of tiles per day, it will yield 1,000 employments and 2,000 employments which are non-automatic. Speaking before placing the foundation stone of the factory Secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and investment, Dr. Adelhelm Meru spoken with the factory, since the Government of Phase Five enter the total power of 2,169 manufacturing industries that include small, medium and large are registered with the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC) and are in various stages of completion.

Ambassador of China in Tanzania, Hon. Dr. Lu Youqing congratulated Hon. President Magufuli to reinforce efforts to promote economic growth that enabled Tanzania to be among the countries with economies growing dramatically in Africa and has noted that China will continue to cooperate with Tanzania to promote investment in Tanzania, including the building industry.

"Hon. President, according to figures TIC until the end of June 2016 investment directly from China has reached US $ 6.6 billion and has generated directly jobs to Tanzanians 150,000 and non-directly 450,000 and this plant Goodwill Tanzania Ceramic Limited is built by investors from China, there are many other industries clustered, MP Mkuranga told me that there are manufacturing more than 50 of the Chinese are in development here Mkuranga, I am very happy to see almost every industry Tanzanians enjoy the cooperation of Tanzania and China "She said Ambassador Dr. Lu Youqing.