On the morning of September 3, 2024, President Xi Jinping met with Chairperson of the African Union Fee (AUC) Moussa Faki Mahamat, who’s in China for the Beijing Summit of the Discussion board on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), on the Nice Corridor of the Individuals in Beijing.
Xi Jinping identified that the African Union (AU) is a banner for Africa to hunt energy via unity and an essential platform for conducting worldwide cooperation. In recent times, China and the AU have continued to deepen political mutual belief and maintained shut coordination and cooperation in worldwide and regional affairs. Xi Jinping mentioned that he’s glad to see that the Africa Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, aided by China for the AU, has been established and put into operation, contributing to Africa’s well being trigger in addition to African folks’s well being and well-being. China helps the AU in enjoying a higher function in the reason for China-Africa friendship, and is able to take this FOCAC Summit as a chance to push for extra outcomes of China-AU cooperation in varied fields and promote the constructing of a China-Africa neighborhood with a shared future to a brand new degree.
Xi Jinping burdened that the present transformations of the world unseen in a century are unfolding at a sooner tempo. The World South, together with China and Africa, is rising stronger, injecting stability and constructive power into world peace and growth. Africa is a crucial pole on the planet and an essential precedence in China’s diplomacy. China is prepared to boost political exchanges with Africa, deepen strategic mutual belief, strengthen sensible cooperation, share growth expertise and promote frequent growth. Xi Jinping known as on the 2 sides to strengthen solidarity and coordination, firmly help one another, advocate an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally helpful and inclusive financial globalization, and collectively safeguard worldwide equity and justice and the frequent pursuits of growing international locations.
Moussa Faki Mahamat mentioned that in his eight years as AUC Chairperson, he has witnessed the speedy development of AU-China relations. He thanked the Chinese language aspect, particularly President Xi Jinping, for his excellent management in selling the event of the Africa-China partnership and the FOCAC institutional growth. For greater than half a century, China has been firmly supporting Africa’s battle towards colonialism, imperialism and racial discrimination, offering priceless help to African international locations in varied fields equivalent to infrastructure, well being, power, trade and safety, and taking the lead in supporting the AU’s accession to the G20, which the African aspect extremely appreciates and sincerely thanks. Because of this, the African aspect firmly pursues the one-China coverage and firmly helps China in safeguarding its core pursuits. The Belt and Highway Initiative, the World Improvement Initiative, the World Safety Initiative, the World Civilization Initiative and different collection of main initiatives put ahead by President Xi Jinping are dedicated to serving to folks of all international locations share peace and growth alternatives, which is essential to strengthening solidarity and cooperation amongst international locations within the World South and making the worldwide governance system fairer and extra equitable. The African aspect expects China to proceed enjoying a key main function and make higher contributions to serving to Africa obtain modernization and world peace and growth.
Wang Yi was current on the assembly.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Embassy of the Individuals’s Republic of China within the Republic of Namibia.