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…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday called for elevating the overall characterization of China-Africa relations to an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era. Xi made the proposal at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing. “Thanks to nearly 70 years of tireless efforts from both sides, the China-Africa relationship is now at its best in history,” Xi noted in his keynote speech. “With its future growth…

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…

Chinese Ambassador to South Africa, Wu Peng, says the “comrades plus brothers” special bond between China and South Africa is growing and that the bilateral relations between the two countries have entered a golden era. Peng made these remarks following a courtesy call to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, August 28th. China is currently South Africa’s largest trading partner and serves as a key source of foreign direct investments (FDI). In 2023, the China-South Africa bilateral trade reached…

The new Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is set to be held on 4-6 September, which will outline the measures of China-Africa cooperation in the next three years and beyond. Before this event, on 15 August, a seminar themed The Governance of China: Forging a Closer China-Africa Community of Shared Future was held in Pretoria, South Africa, by CICG Centre for Europe and Africa, which was attended by more than 70 participants, including South African and…

Given the rate at which youth population in numerous African countries is growing, the continent promises to emerge as a major consumption market in the coming decades. More than 70 percent of Africa’s population is under the age of 35, and by 2030, 42 percent of the world’s young people are expected to reside on the continent. This data points to the potential the continent has to quickly industrialise, develop its economic scale, and innovate in order to compete on…

When the young Africans visiting China to attend the 8th China-Africa Youth Festival were offered the choice of a seven-hour bullet train ride or a two-hour plane journey to travel from Beijing to the city of Jinhua in east China’s Zhejiang Province, they chose the train. They didn’t want to waste a single chance to fulfil the most important purpose of their visit: to experience the country as much as possible.  The festival is a project based on the consensus…