BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The five-nation Africa
tour of Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo has yielded "significant and fruitful"
results by enhancing mutual trust and promoting pragmatic cooperation, vice
secretary-general of China's top legislature Cao Weizhou said Saturday.
The two-week visit took Wu, chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National People's Congress, to five African nations of Algeria,
Gabon, Ethiopia, Madagascar and Seychelles.
Wu also visited the African Union (AU) headquarters
in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa during his visit to the country.
During his visits, Wu exchanged views and reached
extensive consensus with the African leaders on the issues of deepening mutual
trust, enhancing cooperation, aid and parliamentary contacts between China and
the five nations, with a view to promoting the full development of Sino-Africa
relations, Cao said.
Wu's visit, which, according to Cao, is another
important diplomatic action of Chinese leaders following Chinese President Hu
Jintao's successful visit to Africa in 2007, maintained the momentum of
high-level visits between China and African countries.
The visit, which came at the two-year anniversary of
the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, is also of special
significance by promoting the implementations of the Beijing summit results and
the follow-ups, Cao said.
He added that Wu's visit also enhanced the bilateral
ties between China and the five African countries, deepened the political mutual
trust and enriched the connotation of the new type of strategic partnership
between China and Africa.
The Chinese top legislator returned to Beijing on
Saturday after concluding his official visit to Seychelles.