Staff Writer 
THE country’s number one business publication and prime voice for industry and commerce, The Financial Gazette, is teaming up with China’s top English language newspaper, China Daily.
From Thursday next week onwards, subscribers of the Pink Paper — as the FinGaz is popularly referred to by its loyal readers — will receive a copy of China Daily’s Global Weekly with their favourite paper, as the iconic publication plays its part in deepening the booming economic and cultural relations between Zimbabwe and China.
Since its launch in 1981, China Daily has grown to become the East Asian giant’s leading English paper, with a total print, online and mobile readership of more than 350 million. It plays a vital role in providing insight into the world’s second-largest economy.
Pilate Machadu, the Group CEO of Jester Media Services (JMS) — whose subsidiary Modus Media publishes the FinGaz — said yesterday that the decision to work with China Daily and African Channel Distribution (ACD) on this key initiative was “easy and logical”.
“China is not just a reliable and long-standing friend of Zimbabwe, it is a crucial trading and investment partner for our country that is intimately involved in helping to build and revive vital local infrastructure that includes railways, airports and energy projects.
“Contributing to the deepening of ties between Zimbabwe and China, as we are doing, will mean even stronger economic and cultural links between the two countries, as well as more opportunities and access for Zimbabwean companies to huge Chinese markets, affordable goods, technology and machinery, among other things.
“Over and above this, China is a good economic model for Zimbabwe, given its impressive and rapid development from being a low-income to middle-income country a few decades ago, as well as our own quests in this regard,” Machadu said.
“Our partnership with China Daily and ACD is a perfect match that ticks all the right boxes.
“In this regard, and as Zimbabwe’s fastest-growing, commercially sustainable and arguably most important media house, we at JMS are exploring more such win-win relationships with Chinese organisations and others going forward, in all our areas of business that encompass broadcasting, print, online and events.
“We are doing this as we continue to ramp up both the range and quality of our product offerings, and as we move to consolidate our vantage position in the local market,” Machadu added.
Apart from The Financial Gazette, JMS also publishes Zimbabwe’s most influential newspaper, the Daily News, as well as the Daily News On Sunday.
The diversified media house also owns the country’s leading and first independent national television station, 3Ktv, as well as popular e-newsletter Business Live, a printing company and a plethora of magazines and digital assets.
- To subscribe to the print and e-paper editions of The Financial Gazette, the Daily News and the Daily News On Sunday, please contact us at: Telephone number — +263 242 781571/7
Email — mapanzurec@dailynews.co.zw
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