Wang Yi to attend FOCAC follow-up meeting, China-Africa Economic Expo

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will attend the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Follow-up Actions of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the opening ceremony of the Fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in Changsha City, central China's Hunan Province, from June 10 to 12, said a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday.

Spokesperson Lin Jian said Wang Yi and representatives from the 54 African members of the FOCAC will attend the events, when answering a related query at a regular press briefing.

The FOCAC Beijing Summit was successfully held in September last year. China and Africa reached extensive common understandings on joining hands to advance modernization and building an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era.

The China-Africa relationship has been at its best in history, Lin noted.

He added that following the summit, the two sides have been working closely together to actively implement the common understandings reached by the leaders and the outcomes of the summit, and have made important progress and achieved many early harvests.

Lin said that China will enhance coordination with African countries with a focus on implementing the six proposals and 10 partnership initiatives, which China put forward during the FOCAC Beijing Summit, for jointly advancing modernization, so that people in China and Africa will benefit more from the outcomes of the summit.

The two sides will work together to create more great stories about the high-quality development of China-Africa cooperation and send a strong message of solidarity and collaboration among members of the Global South, Lin said.

(Cover: File photo of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. /Chinese Foreign Ministry)

(With input from Xinhua)