Nigerian media: China-Africa cooperation brings "tangible gains" to Africa
2024-08-17
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Reference News reported on August 17On August 15, the website of Nigeria's The Nation published an article titled "Nigeria and the September Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit", written by Charles Onunaiju. The article is excerpted as follows:
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu is planning his first visit to China to attend the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in Beijing from September 4 to 6, which will bring together heads of state and government from more than 50 African countries.
The theme of this summit is "Working together to promote modernization and build a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future". Representatives from relevant African regions and other organizations as well as representatives of international organizations will also attend the summit.
When meeting with a visiting Chinese delegation, Tinubu said that China has provided great help to Africa's development and has had a positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of the African people, which he highly appreciates. He also mentioned that Africa has a huge demand for infrastructure, especially Nigeria. President Tinubu, who accepted the invitation to visit China, expressed the hope that this visit would strengthen bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
As a truly cooperative mechanism between Africa and China, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is not only known as a platform for dialogue and consultation, but more importantly, it has achieved tangible results and brought tangible benefits to the African national economy.
From infrastructure construction, trade, investment to active cultural and educational exchanges, these interactions have greatly enhanced Africa's capacity building and skills acquisition. The FOCAC process has responded to the region's survival needs and has helped to improve infrastructure and connectivity deficits to a considerable extent. The second and third summits in particular have transformed the China-Africa cooperation mechanism.
The two summits outlined key and targeted areas of cooperation, including infrastructure construction, industrialization, agricultural modernization, health care, capacity building and talent training, cultural and educational exchanges, etc. This has made a great contribution to Africa's economic recovery, achieved tangible results in terms of job opportunities, expanded intra-African trade, and also promoted the prospects of Africa's regional trade mechanism - the African Continental Free Trade Area.
Nigeria’s cooperation with China is an important driving force in the overall framework of China-Africa engagement, and the summit that Nigeria will attend will revitalize Nigeria’s important position in the development trajectory of its bilateral relations with China.
Nigeria is implementing economic reforms under the leadership of President Tinubu, and relying solely on verbal support and statements from the West is far from enough.
Nigeria can cooperate more with China in areas such as trade, investment, and infrastructure upgrades. More importantly, China is globally renowned for implementing the most successful economic reforms, which has not only lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, but also become the world's second largest economy and a preferred destination for global investors. Carefully studying the trajectory of China's economic reforms will be of great benefit to Nigeria's long-term goals of economic recovery, sustainable development, and improving people's living standards.
The Beijing Summit will reaffirm the traditional friendship between China and Africa and ensure that the two sides jointly build a development path for a China-Africa community with a shared future.
The outcome of the FOCAC process will reaffirm that China and Africa are important pillars of peace, stability and mutual respect in the evolving multilateral and rule-of-law international order.
On May 23, a Chinese-made EMU was running on the tracks of the Abuja urban railway in Nigeria, which was built by a Chinese company. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency)
