As the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Beijing from September 4 to 6 this year, Xie Yanshen, president of overseas Chinese Association in Togo, shared his observations during his trips to African countries in an exclusive interview with China News Service.
Hunan's trade with Africa dates back over 1,000 years, when exquisite porcelain from ancient Changsha kilns was exported to Africa via the Maritime Silk Road. Today, Changsha's ties with Africa have flourished into deeper trade cooperation.
Mwangi Wachira, former economist at the World Bank and advisor to the Government of Kenya, and Paul Frimpong, executive director and Senior Research Fellow of the Africa-China Centre for Policy & Advisory, were invited to share their insights on China-Africa cooperation during exclusive interviews with China News Network.
"There is a long history of Africa and China supporting each other", said Foreign Minister Yassine Fall of Senegal, the incumbent African co-chair of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the 2024 FOCAC summit.
At the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing, China announced 10 partnership actions that China would take with Africa to advance modernization, in which malaria treatment is a part of the partnership action for health.
As the temperature difference between day and night widens, moisture in the air condenses overnight, forming morning dew—a sign that autumn is on its way.
On September 5, during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit in Beijing, Yassine Fall, foreign minister of Senegal, fourth-term African co-chair of FOCAC, told China News Service that the FOCAC meeting means China and African countries including Senegal are diversifying partnerships. The African-China ties have a long history. The relationship between Africa and China is a relationship that is really win-win. (Zhang Nan, Wu Xinru)
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) hospital ship "Ark Peace" is carrying out Mission Harmony-2024 scheduled from mid-June 2024 to mid-January 2025, providing humanitarian medical services to visiting countries.
Kanky Patrice Mwaigomole, a journalist from Tanzania told China News Network during the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) that, unlike most Western countries, China has helped Africa take big steps ahead and Chinese assistance projects have created a large number of job opportunities for the African people. China has helped Africa a lot, which has truly benefited the African people.
In an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Service, Ali Adji Mahamat Seid, president of the Chadian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that China-Africa cooperation achieves a win-win situation and will not be disturbed by Western remarks.
The "AI Hangzhou" service platform for foreigners was launched during the 7th Hangzhou International Day inaugurated in Zhejiang Province on Thursday.
China on Friday launched a Long March-6 carrier rocket to place a group of 10 commercial satellites in space.
part from the adoption of a child or stepchild from one’s collateral relatives by blood of the same generation and up to the third degree of kinship by foreigners coming to China, China will not send children abroad for adoption.
After the ceremony, we played a selfie relay game with journalists from different countries. Playing the game, through which we’ve shared the path with each other, and now we're real friends.
The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is being held in Beijing. In an interview with China News Network, Mehdi Laraki, president of Morocco Chinese Business Council refutes the narrative of China's "debt trap".
China will give all the least developed countries having diplomatic relations with China, including 33 African countries, zero-tariff treatment for 100 percent tariff lines, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a keynote speech on Thursday.
The Second International Deep Space Exploration Conference kicked off on Thursday in Tunxi District of Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province.
"This partnership is very key, very key," said Kenyan journalist Edward Alusa Mudanya on Thursday in an interview with China News Network during the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing.
The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is currently ongoing in Beijing, capital of China. This is not only a grand gathering of China and Africa, but also a major event for the Global South and the entire international community.
The 2024 summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will be held in Beijing from Sept 4 to 6.
As economic and trade cooperation between China and Africa draws increasingly closer, related businesses are hoping to tap into future cooperation.
When asked which Chinese books they read most often, African journalists unanimously named Chinese President Xi Jinping's series of books.
Chinese and South African enterprises signed six cooperative agreements, covering key areas such as clean energy, manufacturing, and technology, during the 2024 South Africa-China Presidential Business Forum held on Wednesday in Beijing.
Before the Summit, international journalists gathered in Beijing and the Latin American press group participated in a media activity, visiting some cultural hotspots of Beijing. Let's see what they said.
The summit is expected to adopt two outcome documents: a Declaration and an Action Plan. These documents will uphold the Principles of Sincerity, Real results, Affinity, and Good faith, along with the spirit of China-Africa friendly cooperation.
Outside the media center of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, African journalists experience Chinese intangible cultural heritage. They make kites, and paint Peking Opera faces, and some of them even make a "small ring" for themselves. “Chinese culture is quite impressive,” the journalists are all amazed by the exquisite culture.
Abubakar Harith, a TV producer in Zanzibar, currently in Beijing to report on the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, sang "The Moon Represents My Heart" to express his love of Chinese culture during an interview on Wednesday.
In the first half of this year, trade volume between east China’s Zhejiang Province and Africa totaled $27.88 billion, a three percent increase year-on-year. Among this, imports from Africa registered $5.55 billion, up 12.9 percent year-on-year, said a local official at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing.
The Aerospace Information Industry International Ecosystem Conference 2024 was held on Tuesday in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.