Forum on China-Africa Cooperation: President Félix Tshisekedi wants to strengthen the strategic partnership
President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi took part, on Wednesday, September 4 in Beijing (China), in the official opening ceremony of the 9th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which is being held from September 4 to 6, 2024.
He participated, on the same Wednesday evening, in the traditional opening banquet of the Forum offered by President Xi Jinping.
About twenty Heads of State and Government also participated in this event, which highlights the rapprochement between China and Africa to meet development challenges and create a platform for maximizing opportunities for multilateral cooperation.
These meetings represent an opportunity for the DRC, the main destination for Chinese investments in Africa in 2023, to strengthen its strategic partnership with China, indicates the Presidency of the Republic.
They aim to expand common ground, strengthen friendship and promote China-Africa cooperation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the "glorious example" of China-Africa relations.
"We have worked together to build roads, railways, schools, hospitals, industrial parks and special economic zones.
These projects have changed the lives and destinies of many people," Xi said, noting that the China-Africa community with a shared future is distinguished by win-win cooperation.
FOCAC is a platform promoting relations between Africa and China.
For this ninth edition, the central theme is promoting modernization built on a China-Africa community with a shared future.
Through this conference, China aims to expand common ground, strengthen friendship and promote cooperation with the African continent.
China-Africa Forum: Xi Jinping proposes action plans to jointly advance modernization with Africa
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China is willing to work with Africa to implement 10 partnership action plans in the next three years to jointly promote modernization.
A third of the world's population lives in China and Africa.
There will be no global modernization without the modernization of China and Africa, Xi noted in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
The 10 partnership action plans will cover the areas of mutual learning among civilizations, trade prosperity, industrial chain cooperation, connectivity, development cooperation, health, agriculture and livelihood, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, green development and common security, Xi said.
He proposed upgrading China-Africa relations to the level of an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era.
He also proposed upgrading bilateral relations between China and all African countries that have diplomatic ties with China to a strategic level.
Thanks to nearly seven decades of painstaking efforts, China-Africa relations are now in the best period in history, Xi said.
Xi Jinping proposes action plans to jointly advance modernization with Africa.
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