The 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit will be held in Beijing from September 4 to 6
2024-08-20
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On August 20, the State Council Information Office held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of economic, trade and development cooperation of the 2024 China-Africa Cooperation Forum Summit. Upstream News reporters learned from the press conference that the 2024 China-Africa Cooperation Forum Summit will be held in Beijing from September 4 to 6, and China and Africa will continue their friendly relations and discuss cooperation plans.
Tang Wenhong, Assistant Minister of Commerce, introduced that in 2021, the 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was successfully held. China and Africa jointly formulated the "China-Africa Cooperation Vision 2035". As the first three-year plan of the vision, China will work closely with African countries to jointly implement the "Nine Projects". Since the closing of the forum, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National International Development Cooperation Agency, together with the member units of the Chinese Follow-up Action Committee of the forum, have strengthened overall coordination, worked together with African parties, and moved forward in the same direction, making every effort to promote the full implementation of the "Nine Projects", driving China-Africa economic and trade cooperation to a new level, and effectively enhancing the well-being of the Chinese and African people.
Assistant Minister of Commerce Tang Wenhong introduced the relevant situation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit. Image source: China News Service
Specifically, driven by projects such as economic and trade promotion, investment drive, poverty reduction and enriching farmers, China-Africa investment and trade cooperation has developed steadily. In 2023, China-Africa trade volume reached US$282.1 billion. China has maintained its position as Africa's largest trading partner for 15 consecutive years. A number of infrastructure and manufacturing projects such as Nigeria's Lekki Deepwater Port, Kenya's Nairobi International Airport Toll Expressway, South Africa's photovoltaic power station, and Egypt's home appliance factory have been implemented and achieved results, and the level of China-Africa industrial chain and supply chain cooperation has been continuously improved. Egypt successfully issued Africa's first "Panda Bond" in China, and the financial support channels for China-Africa economic and trade cooperation have been further broadened. China has sent more than 500 agricultural experts to Africa and trained nearly 9,000 agricultural talents to support the modernization of Africa's agriculture.
Driven by green development and digital innovation projects, Chinese companies have implemented a large number of clean energy projects in Africa, and exports of lithium batteries and photovoltaic products to Africa have increased significantly. China actively supports the construction of the "African Green Great Wall" and promotes the "African Light Belt" project of South-South cooperation in addressing climate change. The China-Africa Satellite Remote Sensing Application Cooperation Center was unveiled in Beijing. The China-Africa Digital Cooperation Forum was successfully held. China and African countries have jointly built more than 10 bilateral joint laboratories or joint research centers to carry out joint research in the fields of resource remote sensing, renewable energy, and ecological agriculture.
Driven by investment-driven, capacity-building, and cultural exchanges, China is accelerating the construction of a pilot zone for in-depth economic and trade cooperation between China and Africa, and exploring new models and paths for the integrated development of China-Africa investment and trade through institutional innovation. The China-Africa Media Cooperation Forum, China-Africa Youth Volunteer Service Forum, China-Africa Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum, China-Africa Women's Forum, and China-Africa Peace and Security Forum were successfully held, providing a professional and efficient mechanism platform for two-way dialogue between talents in various fields between China and Africa.
Tang Wenhong said that the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit will be held in Beijing from September 4 to 6. China and Africa will share friendship and discuss cooperation plans. China will uphold the policy of "real, pro-China and good faith" and the correct concept of justice and interests towards Africa, expand institutional opening-up to Africa, deepen industrial chain and supply chain cooperation, better realize China-Africa economic integration, development linkage and achievement sharing, further build strategic consensus between China and Africa, and make greater contributions to consolidating the China-Africa comprehensive strategic partnership and building a high-level China-Africa community with a shared future.
Upstream News reporter Shi Tingting
