Spokesperson's Remarks｜The FOCAC Beijing Summit sends a strong message of Ch...

The FOCAC Beijing Summit was concluded today. China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday that the Summit sends a strong message of China and Africa seeking common development, demonstrates the firm determination of the Global South working together in solidarity, and sets the Global South as a stellar example in jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Mao Ning, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson/MFA PRC

"Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi together with foreign ministers of the current and upcoming co-chairs of FOCAC met the press yesterday and elaborated on the Beijing Summit of FOCAC and its outcomes. Foreign Minister Wang Yi noted it is yet another friendly gathering of the big China-Africa family in Beijing after six years, and the event is of great significance and influence. President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of FOCAC and delivered a keynote speech. The clear political consensus of enhancing all-round cooperation between China and Africa was reached by the two sides and the Summit was a great success." Mao Ning, a spokesperson for the ministry, said.

Mao stressed that China has established strategic partnership with all African countries having diplomatic ties with China. During the Summit, China forged or elevated strategic partnership with 30 countries. The overall characterization of China-Africa relations has been elevated to an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era. The decision determined a clearer characterization for and added more dimensions to the relations. China and Africa affirmed that the two sides should jointly advance modernization characterized by six features and formulated the blueprint for future cooperation. The Summit adopted the Beijing Declaration and the Beijing Action Plan. President Xi Jinping announced 10 partnership actions for China and Africa to advance modernization in the next three years.

Mao pointed out that China and Africa compared notes on strategies regarding international situation and global governance. The two sides agreed to firmly support each other on issues bearing on each other's core interests, jointly practice true multilateralism, implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and the Global Civilization Initiative, advocate an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally-beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, break "small yard with high fences", reject discrimination and bias, correct historical injustice, and bring the benefit of modernization to all people. (By Ma Ziqian/China Youth Daily)

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