Chinese Investments in Mozambique: Bilateral Cooperation As an Agenda to Overcome the Prostration of Underdevelopment?

Mozambique is on a bloc of countries that are among the poorest in the world. As a nation that suffered colonial domination and subjugation by the Portuguese, it had to fight, not without pain, a long civil war after independence, which meant great destruction of its infrastructure, famine, waves of refugees, death and a legacy of millions of anti-personnel landmines that are still scattered and active throughout Mozambican territory. This article will address bilateral cooperation between China and Mozambique in recent decades, evaluating the impact of Chinese capital investments to expand and improve the infrastructure of the East African country. In the first part, the state of the Mozambican economy will be reviewed, which through its extractive sector of aluminum, titanium, graphite and natural gas has export products that represent important sources of income. The second part analyzes the long process of rebuilding the country, where China is a major player with investment flows that reached 4.6 billion dollars in 2022. In the third part, the areas of urgent need for investment in the country will be reviewed, where the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has already expressed its desire to expand the country's infrastructure - the greatest challenge - with an improvement and expansion of existing roads, as well as bridges. The state of other economic sectors that need an injection of resources is reviewed, such as agriculture, heavy industry - with the steel industry at the forefront - which urgently requires the impetus to start from there towards large projects. Finally, towards the end of the article, conclusions will be issued, putting into context a multipolar world that is emerging, with a new model of cooperation between countries