China and Africa have had similar experiences and have common missions, and have been supporting each other in the past few years, forging a distinctive path of win-win cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday, adding that China has always been "genuine, practical, friendly, and frank" with Africa. Xi made the remarks in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).