Ambassador to Africa’s biggest oil producer, Xu Jianguo has presided over a rapid expansion of commercial and diplomatic ties since his posting to Abuja in September 2006. Chinese investment in Nigeria is worth more than US$3 billion, and bilateral trade in 2007 was running at over $4 bn., making Nigeria China’s third-largest African trading partner, just behind Angola and Sudan.
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