briefing on the 2024 forum on china-africa cooperation summit: registration for the 8th china-africa entrepreneurs conference exceeded expectations
2024-09-04
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on the afternoon of september 3, the press center of the 2024 forum on china-africa cooperation summit held a briefing. zhang shaogang, vice president of the china council for the promotion of international trade, introduced the 8th china-africa entrepreneurs conference. upstream news reporters learned from the briefing that the number of applicants for this china-africa entrepreneurs conference far exceeded expectations. currently, there are 382 chinese and 408 african entrepreneur representatives registered to participate.
the number of applicants for the 8th china-africa entrepreneurs conference exceeded expectations. 2024 china-africa cooperation forum summit news center
zhang shaogang said that as an important supporting event for the 2024 forum on china-africa cooperation summit, the china council for the promotion of international trade and the ministry of commerce will jointly host the 8th china-africa entrepreneurs conference in beijing on september 6. more than 400 business representatives from more than 40 african countries will be invited to attend the conference. the participating companies cover a wide range of industries, including representatives from traditional industries such as energy, mining, and infrastructure, as well as representatives from emerging industries such as electronic technology, communication satellites, and biomedicine; there are both well-known leading companies in various fields in china and africa, as well as a considerable number of small and medium-sized enterprises.
china and africa will exchange and discuss topics of common concern, build consensus on cooperation, and discuss major plans for cooperation. china will thoroughly implement the spirit of the third plenary session of the 20th cpc central committee, expand institutional opening-up to africa, deepen industrial chain and supply chain cooperation, better achieve china-africa economic integration, development linkage and sharing of results, and make greater contributions to consolidating the china-africa comprehensive strategic partnership and building a high-level china-africa community with a shared future.
zhang shaogang said that this entrepreneurs conference will have three sessions: opening ceremony, special speeches and closing ceremony. chinese and african leaders will deliver speeches, expounding on how to enhance the friendship between china and africa, continuously strengthen cooperation, and put forward expectations and suggestions for future cooperation between china and africa. the special speeches will invite chinese and african entrepreneurs to share the successful experience of cooperation between chinese and african entrepreneurs around the two topics of "promoting the integration of industrial chain and supply chain" and "promoting the development of emerging industries", and explore the cooperation opportunities brought by the new initiatives of the summit.
sun xiao, secretary general of the china chamber of international commerce, introduced that the entrepreneurs conference will focus on two topics. 2024 china-africa cooperation forum summit news center
regarding the topics, sun xiao, secretary-general of the china chamber of international commerce, introduced at the briefing that the two topics were set up on the basis of extensive consultation with all parties and full research on the development direction of china-africa economic and trade cooperation. in promoting the integration of industrial chain and supply chain, china is a developing country with the most complete industrial chain in the world, and africa is the continent with the most concentrated developing countries in the world. china and africa have strong complementarity in industrial chain and supply chain; in promoting the development of emerging industries, china and africa rely on the joint construction of the "belt and road" and the china-africa cooperation forum, and have deepened cooperation in the fields of digital economy, green development, etc., and achieved good results.
sun xiao said that in 2006, the china council for the promotion of international trade and the african chamber of commerce jointly established the china-africa joint chamber of commerce, which has signed cooperation memorandums of understanding with 56 counterparts in 36 african countries, providing convenience for chinese and african enterprises to carry out trade and investment cooperation through exhibitions, mutual visits, training, commercial legal services, etc. in addition, the china council for the promotion of international trade has also compiled and issued a country (region) business environment guide for foreign investment in 17 african countries such as zambia and ethiopia, held a series of special trainings on "going out" for enterprises in african investment hotspots, and established representative offices in south africa and egypt to better serve chinese and african enterprises.
zhang shaogang pointed out that entrepreneurs are the main force of china-africa economic and trade cooperation. since its inception in 2003, the china-africa entrepreneurs conference has been held alternately in china and african countries every three years, and has been successfully held seven times so far. president xi jinping attended the fifth and sixth china-africa entrepreneurs conferences in 2015 and 2018 and delivered important speeches, which fully demonstrated the chinese government's high attention to the pragmatic cooperation between the business community and africa.
zhang shaogang said that this entrepreneurs conference has received great attention from african countries, and all parties have signed up for the conference actively. the conference is of high standard, african parties are highly motivated to participate, enterprises are highly representative, and the activities are highly effective. with the joint efforts of all parties, this conference will surely create a mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation atmosphere for the chinese and african business communities, further expand the impact of the summit, and promote china-africa economic and trade relations to a new level.
upstream news reporter shi tingting
