China denies merchandising human meat as tinned corned meat in Zambia in Africa

Jun 22, 2016-China's foreign ministry has denied about the reports that Chinese food companies are canning human meat and merchandising it in Africa as corned beef.

The nation's state-run Xinhua news company said one tabloid daily paper in Zambia was dishonestly citing an anonymous lady living in China.

She said Chinese firms were gathering dead human bodies, marinating them and packing them in tins as corned beef.

Chinese representative Hong Lei said the reports were "reckless".

The Chinese Ambassador to Zambia, Yang Youming, said the reports were published to distroy the long-standing partnership between the two nations.

"Today a local tabloid daily paper is transparently spreading reumors, guaranteeing that the Chinese use human meat to make corned beef and merchandise it to Africa.

"This is a malignant criticizing and denunciation which is completely inadmissible to us.

"We thus express our most extreme displeasure and the most grounded judgment over such a demonstration."

The photographs evidently indicating dead bodies are really from a promoting stunt from 2012 for the computer game Resident Evil 6.

A butchers offering fake "human meat" was set up at London's Smithfield Market and the same pictures have showed up in Zambia this current week.Zambia's Deputy Defense Minister Christopher Mulenga says his legislature will dispatch an examination concerning the reports.

"The government of Zambia laments the episode in perspective of the warm relations that exist amongst Zambia and China," he said.

"We should ensure that pertinent government administration will take up the examinations and give a complete statement."

Zambia has a substantial group of Chinese foreigners who've fabricated fruitful organizations in the retail and construction businesses.

China is additionally a key merchant of Zambia's key export, copper, and has put significant measures of money into the nation's mining industry.