Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) has achieved complete success. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, made the remarks when meeting the press together with Senegalese Foreign Minister Yacine Fall and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Congo Jean-Claude Gakosso. Elaborating on the major outcomes of the summit, Wang said bilateral relations between China…

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) represents an innovative framework for South-South cooperation and a platform for fruitful exchange and dynamic partnership, and China and Africa will establish a stronger and higher-level partnership in the future, said Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye in a recent interview with Chinese media here. “The relations between China and Africa shows a dynamic of strengthening and diversification, and FOCAC is an important tool in support of this cooperation,” Faye said. The theme of the…

Zimbabwe and China enjoy a time-honored friendship and are now carrying out fruitful cooperation in the political, economic and social sectors, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. African Times has published this article in partnership with Xinhua News Agency

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China stands ready to work with Africa to implement 10 partnership actions to jointly advance modernization. One-third of the world’s population lives in China and Africa, and there will be no global modernization without the modernization of China and Africa, Xi said in a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The 10 actions, to be implemented in the next three years,…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday lauded the “stellar example” of China-Africa relations as China rolled out the red carpet for African leaders and other guests attending a grand summit expected to further elevate ties. Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, held a welcome banquet at the Great Hall of the People for the guests who are in Beijing to attend the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), the largest diplomatic event hosted by China in years.…

No country should fall behind on the road to modernization, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed as he called for joint efforts of China and Africa to contribute to the modernization of the Global South at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing on Thursday. “As an African proverb goes, ‘a friend is someone you share the path with’. On the path to modernization, no one, and no country, should be left behind. Let us rally…

The joint pursuit of modernization by China and Africa will set off a modernization wave in the Global South, said Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Xi made the remarks when he delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing. “As we are about to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, we are going all out to build a great modern socialist country…

Leaders of African countries and international organizations arrived at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to attend the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on Thursday morning. Chinese President Xi is set to deliver a keynote speech at the ceremony. The three-day FOCAC summit, which opened on Wednesday, is the largest diplomatic event hosted by China in recent years, with the highest attendance of foreign leaders. Themed “Joining Hands to Advance…

The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) opened in Beijing on Thursday morning, with Chinese President Xi Jinping set to deliver a keynote speech at the opening ceremony.Themed “Joining Hands to Advance Modernization and Build a High-Level China-Africa Community with a Shared Future”, the three-day event aims to strengthen friendship and outline future cooperation between China and Africa.The FOCAC summit this time is the largest diplomatic event hosted by China in recent years, drawing the attendance of…

China and Africa have set a stellar example of a new type of international relations, said Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Xi made the remarks in a keynote speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Xi pointed out that the friendship between China and Africa transcends time and space, surmounts mountains and oceans, and passes down through generations. The founding of the FOCAC in 2000 was a milestone in…