Special Report: China-Africa Forum
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Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan (6th R) cuts the ribbon during the opening ceremony of an exhibition in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 3, 2006. The exhibition to show the achievements made during the six years after the creation of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held here on Friday, the eve of the two-day FOCAC Beijing Summit. (Xinhua Photo)
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BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition to show the achievements made during the six years after creation of the
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held here on Friday on the eve of
the two-day Beijing Summit.
The exhibition, through some 250 pictures, showed the
achievements in cooperation and exchanges between China and Africain fields of
politics, economy, trade, education and security.
In a speech at the opening ceremony, Chinese State
Councilor Tang Jiaxuan said FOCAC, which was set up in 2000, is the natural
fruit of years of sincere friendship on the basis of equality and mutual
assistance between China and Africa.
Recalling the achievements will further strengthen
bilateral understanding, friendship and cooperation, he said, adding China and
Africa will forever be all-weather friends, good partners and brothers.
FOCAC is a mechanism for collective dialogue and
cooperation jointly established by China and Africa to cope with new challenges
and facilitate common development.
Beijing Summit, slated for Nov. 4-5, will draw
leaders and senior officials from 48 African countries that have diplomatic
relations with China.
Since FOCAC was established six years ago, economic
and trade cooperation between China and Africa has entered a new era, with
comprehensive, rapid and stable development.
The two-way trade volume reached 39.8 billion U.S.
dollars in 2005 and China has exempted 10.9 billion yuan of debts of 31 heavily
indebted poor countries and least developed countries in Africa.
Until August of this year, China had trained over
11,000 personnel for African countries.
