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in the golden september, the sweet osmanthus is fragrant, and beijing, china, once again attracts the world's attention——

from september 4 to 6, the 2024 forum on china-africa cooperation summit was successfully held in beijing. focusing on the theme of "working together to promote modernization and building a high-level china-africa community with a shared future", chinese and african leaders shared their deep friendship, discussed major plans for cooperation, and drew a blueprint for the future.

"we should work together to promote eco-friendly modernization. green development is a distinctive mark of modernization in the new era. china is willing to help africa build a 'green growth engine', narrow the energy accessibility gap, adhere to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, and jointly promote the global green and low-carbon transformation." president xi jinping's words were powerful. this important statement demonstrated that both sides attach great importance to and are committed to eco-friendliness, and pointed out the direction for china-africa energy cooperation.

china is the largest developing country in the world, and africa is the continent with the highest concentration of developing countries. at present, china is comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the chinese nation with chinese-style modernization; africa is also actively promoting integration and modernization, and making every effort to build a new africa of peace, unity, prosperity and self-reliance.

realizing modernization is an inalienable right of all countries in the world. this is the general consensus of china and africa, and is also the key discourse for decoding china-africa energy cooperation in the new era. this not only embodies the eager expectations of the chinese and african people, but also has rich connotations of eco-friendliness.

africa's natural environment is extremely diverse. from the tropical rainforests of the congo basin to the beautiful scenery along the nile river, all of them reveal the background of "green". respecting nature, adapting to nature, and protecting nature, when chinese energy companies set foot on this vibrant continent, they always incorporate eco-friendly concepts into project development and operations:

in mozambique, petrochina has continuously optimized the development plan of the rovuma basin liquefied natural gas project, replacing gas turbines with electric motors and adding carbon dioxide capture devices to the emission system to ensure the sustainable development of the project under the goals of carbon peak and carbon neutrality;

in uganda, in order to protect the local ecological environment and wildlife, sinopec uses the world's most advanced 50dbs ultra-quiet intelligent drilling rig, camouflages the rig with paint, installs color-changing lamps, achieves zero discharge of waste and liquid, and effectively protects the habitat of wildlife;

in egypt, the egyptian eetc 500 kv backbone network upgrade project, contracted and implemented by china electric power technology and equipment co., ltd., a subsidiary of state grid, supported the power transmission of three newly built 4.8 million kilowatt gas-fired power plants, effectively improving the power supply capacity of the nile delta region and benefiting the local people.

in south africa, after the moi 283mw photovoltaic project built by china energy construction was connected to the grid, it supplies south africa with about 400 million kilowatt-hours of stable and clean electricity each year, providing important support for south africa's energy transformation...

green development is full of vitality. a large number of iconic energy projects and "small but beautiful" projects that benefit the people have taken root in africa, providing clean electricity to the local public while achieving harmonious development with the ecological environment, bringing tangible benefits to african countries and people.

a thousand sails race against each other, and the brave ones win; a hundred boats race against each other, and the ones who strive to be the first are the ones who stand out. standing at an important coordinate node, china-africa energy cooperation has ushered in a new chapter.

"china is willing to implement 30 clean energy projects in africa" ​​and "establish a china-africa forum on the peaceful uses of nuclear technology"... president xi jinping's words have set the course for the high-quality development of china-africa energy cooperation.

"expand mutually beneficial cooperation in agriculture, manufacturing, mineral energy, infrastructure and other fields to help nigeria and west africa's modernization drive", "deepen cooperation in infrastructure, agriculture, minerals, new energy and other fields to help zimbabwe's modernization process", "welcome china to continue to increase investment in kenya and expand bilateral practical cooperation in various fields, especially in the fields of connectivity, new energy, youth and other fields"... african leaders attending the meeting expressed their views one after another.

people who share the same path are true friends. on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, china and africa will certainly continue to deepen cooperation in the energy field. taking the grand opening of the summit as an opportunity, we will set off a wave of cooperation between china and africa to jointly promote modernization and build a high-level china-africa community with a shared future, and contribute more energy power to the construction of the china-africa community with a shared future. let us work together to create a bright future for china-africa energy cooperation!

author | commentator of china electric power news