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cooperation will move towards "digitalization" and bilateral trade volume has increased 26 times since the establishment of the china-africa forum

2024-09-05

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in the china-uganda mbale industrial park in eastern uganda, africa, home appliances, daily chemicals, home textiles, building materials, pharmaceuticals, automobile manufacturing... this park, which brings together many industries, covers thousands of acres and is invested and operated by chinese companies. since its launch in march 2018, it has attracted more than 40 companies to settle in, created more than 5,000 jobs, and incubated multiple local brands, becoming a model for promoting local industrialization and modernization.

this is a microcosm of china-africa cooperation. from infrastructure construction to economic and trade exchanges, from industrial upgrading to digital innovation, from green development to public health cooperation, china-africa cooperation has achieved fruitful results in recent years.

the 2024 forum on china-africa cooperation summit was held in beijing from september 4 to 6. this is another reunion of the china-africa friendship family after the 2006 beijing summit of the forum on china-africa cooperation, the 2015 johannesburg summit, and the 2018 beijing summit. it is also the largest home diplomacy held by china in recent years with the most foreign leaders attending.

xu jianping, director of the regional opening department of the national development and reform commission, said at the first briefing of the 2024 china-africa cooperation forum summit press center that over the past 11 years, 52 african countries and the african union have signed a memorandum of understanding with china on the joint construction of the "belt and road" cooperation. during the summit, china will also sign a number of new cooperation plans for the joint construction of the "belt and road" with some african countries, and establish more coordination mechanisms for the joint construction of the "belt and road" cooperation with african countries.

china has successively signed cooperation plans for jointly building the "belt and road" with algeria, egypt, ethiopia, djibouti, mauritania, morocco, mozambique and other countries and the african union. it has combined the key contents identified in the development strategies of african countries and the african union's "2063 agenda" with the actual development needs of enterprises, and in accordance with the principle of combining demand with possibility, has determined them in the form of a list of cooperation projects and matters, and has implemented them in rounds of rolling rounds.