{"id":226112,"date":"2026-03-05T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-china-trade-surges-time-to-turn-growth-into-real-gains\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:30:05","slug":"ghana-china-trade-surges-time-to-turn-growth-into-real-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-china-trade-surges-time-to-turn-growth-into-real-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana-China Trade Surges &#8211; Time to Turn Growth Into Real Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Bilateral trade between Ghana and China has climbed to an impressive $14.1 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of more than 193 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The announcement, made by China&#8217;s acting Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Li Yang, marks more than a statistical achievement; it reflects the growing depth of economic ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Speaking at a Lantern Festival celebration in Accra, Mr Li described the surge as a milestone in Ghana-China relations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603050369.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilateral trade between Ghana and China has climbed to an impressive $14.1 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of more than 193 per cent. The announcement, made by China&#8217;s acting Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Li Yang, marks more than a statistical achievement; it reflects the growing depth of economic ties between the two countries. Speaking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7219,4509,53828,6641,257,6884,254,12546,6599,5979,7101],"class_list":["post-226112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gains","tag-ghana-news","tag-growth","tag-news","tag-real","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surges","tag-time","tag-trade","tag-turn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}