Decorations for the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit (FOCAC) are on display near the China National Conference Center in Beijing on August 30, 2024. This year’s FOCAC will be held in Beijing from September 4th to 6th. Photo: VCG
In response to media questions about the highlights of this year’s China-Africa cooperation and the outlook for China-Africa relations next year, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Mao Ning said that despite the turbulent international situation, China-Africa relations will continue to grow in 2024. He said that he will achieve fruitful results in 2020. .
Mao Zedong was joined by nearly 6,000 guests, including leaders of all 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China, the Chairman of the African Union Commission, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and the Secretary-General of the African Union, to discuss the history of the China-Africa friendship family. He said he celebrated a public gathering. Other senior international officials will convene in Beijing for the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit.
Mao Zedong said that we have witnessed China’s bilateral relations with all African countries with diplomatic relations with China being elevated to the level of strategic partnership, and the friendship between China and Africa being greatly strengthened. pointed out. As a result, China-Africa relations have been upgraded to an all-weather Sino-African community with a common future in a new era.
At the 2024 FOCAC Summit, six major proposals and ten partnership actions to jointly advance China-Africa modernization were announced, and we observed significant growth in China-Africa cooperation. A number of ground-breaking and “small but beautiful” projects have been implemented and flourishing across Africa, the spokesperson said.
We have witnessed the coming together of the Global South, with China and Africa being key members in the collective rise of the Global South. The spokesperson said that through the Beijing Declaration, the 2024 FOCAC summit expressed a unified opposition to hegemony, bloc rivalry, and practices of “decoupling” and “supply chain disruption.”
Looking ahead to 2025, China is committed to implementing the 2024 Summit, which will consolidate the achievements of FOCAC and the important agreements reached by Chinese and African leaders. Together with African countries, we will strengthen coordination of policies and development strategies, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, promote cultural exchanges, and continue to resolutely support each other on issues of core interests and major concerns. . Mao Zedong said, “We will enrich the implications of an all-weather Sino-African community with a common future in the new era, jointly safeguard the common interests of the Global South, and promote international equity and justice.” “We will thereby contribute to world peace and development.” Tuesday.
Global Times
