China and Africa have stepped up coordination in turning the strategic frequent understandings between the leaders of each side into robust momentum for China-Africa top quality cooperation offering stable and dependable help and drive for Africa’s modernization. China had in-depth communication with the Republic of the Congo, the African co-chair of FOCAC, and in depth consultations with African international locations, and collectively made a timetable and roadmap for the implementation of the follow-up actions after the Summit.
For the reason that Summit, China has supplied RMB 130.32 billion yuan in monetary help to the African facet, and RMB 139.95 billion yuan in insurance coverage protection for China-Africa cooperation. Early outcomes of the follow-up actions have been achieved.
On June 11, 2025, President Xi Jinping and President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso respectively despatched congratulatory letters to the Ministerial Assembly of Coordinators on the Implementation of the Comply with-up Actions of the Discussion board on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), and prolonged heat congratulations to the convening of the assembly.
Xi Jinping identified that since its institution 25 years in the past, the FOCAC has strongly pushed the flourishing improvement of China-Africa cooperation and change into a mannequin for solidarity and cooperation within the World South. Xi Jinping recalled that in September final 12 months, on the FOCAC Beijing Summit, he and African leaders unanimously agreed to collectively advance modernization that’s simply and equitable, open and win-win and eco-friendly, places the individuals first, options variety and inclusiveness, and is underpinned by peace and safety, and to take ten partnership actions, steering China-Africa relations into a brand new stage of constructing an all-weather China-Africa group with a shared future for the brand new period.
Because of the concerted efforts of each side, the implementation of the outcomes of the Summit has already yielded quite a lot of encouraging early harvests. The 2 sides have additionally reached a consensus on organizing the China-Africa 12 months of Folks-to-Folks Exchanges in 2026. Xi Jinping expressed the idea that it will inject new vitality into China-Africa pleasant cooperation.
Xi Jinping emphasised that the present worldwide panorama is marked by intertwined adjustments and turbulence. China stays dedicated to creating new alternatives for the world by means of the brand new achievements in Chinese language modernization, and offering new momentum for Africa and different World South companions by means of China’s massive market.
Via the entry into agreements on financial partnership for shared improvement, China implements zero-tariff measures of granting 53 African international locations having diplomatic relations with China zero-tariff therapy for one hundred pc tariff strains, and facilitates better entry for exports from Africa’s least developed international locations to China.
China is able to work with the African facet to additional implement the ten partnership actions, strengthen cooperation in key areas corresponding to inexperienced industries, e-commerce and fee, science and know-how, and synthetic intelligence, deepen cooperation in such fields as safety, finance, and the rule of legislation, and collectively promote high-quality improvement of China-Africa cooperation.
Xi Jinping identified that openness and cooperation are the correct path ahead, and mutual profit is the shared aspiration of the individuals. Joint efforts by China and Africa to advance modernization will strongly promote solidarity and cooperation within the World South and open up brighter prospects for the reason for peace and improvement around the globe.
He expressed hope that each side will proceed to advance the implementation of the outcomes of the Summit with stable efforts, rigorously plan the long run improvement of the FOCAC, and work hand in hand to construct an all-weather China-Africa group with a shared future for the brand new period, contributing the power of China and Africa to the constructing of a group with a shared future for mankind.
In his congratulatory letter, President Denis Sassou Nguesso stated that for the reason that convening of the FOCAC Beijing Summit, Africa-China strategic and sensible cooperation has yielded fruitful outcomes. This Ministerial Assembly of Coordinators coincides with the twenty fifth anniversary of the institution of the FOCAC. He pledged to make all-out efforts and work unwaveringly with President Xi Jinping to make better progress in constructing an Africa-China group with a shared future and to boost the well-being of the individuals on each side.
In closing he emphasised that because the African co-chair of the FOCAC, the Republic of the Congo will work with China and different World South international locations to strengthen cooperation below the Belt and Street Initiative, collectively construct a multipolar world free from unilateralism and protectionism, and usher in a brand new period of universally useful and inclusive globalization.
China and Africa take pleasure in a long-standing friendship that has been rising stronger over time. The amicable ties between the 2 peoples function the bedrock for the expansion of China-Africa relations, and people-to-people exchanges repeatedly gasoline the vitality of this enduring friendship throughout generations.
President Xi Jinping identified, “The muse and lifeline of China-Africa relations lie with the individuals. Due to this fact, the event of our relationships must be extra people-oriented.” On the 2024 Beijing Summit of the Discussion board on China-Africa Cooperation (hereinafter known as FOCAC), President Xi introduced that the 2 sides agreed to designate 2026 because the China-Africa 12 months of Folks-to-Folks Exchanges (hereinafter known as the 12 months).
To implement the vital consensus reached by Chinese language and African leaders and the outcomes of the FOCAC Beijing Summit, the 2 sides will host a sequence of people-to-people change actions below the theme of Consolidate All-Climate Friendship, Pursue Shared Dream of Modernization, as we have a good time in 2026 the seventieth anniversary of the beginning of diplomatic relations between China and African international locations.
These actions goal to advertise exchanges and mutual studying among the many Chinese language and African civilizations and strengthen people-to-people bonds, amity and cooperation, thus solidifying the general public help for China-Africa friendship.
On this course of, China will act upon the rules of sincerity, actual outcomes, amity, and good religion guiding its Africa coverage, and faucet the potential for additional cooperation in varied fields, in order to reinvigorate the joint endeavours of China and Africa to advance modernization, and contribute to constructing the all-weather China-Africa group with a shared future for the brand new period and pursuing the shared dream of modernization.
Based on the tentative program, originally of 2026, the China-Africa 12 months of Folks-to-Folks Exchanges will begin with a launching ceremony unveiling key actions. Associates from throughout China and Africa are welcome to attend.
All year long, guided by the rules of people-centered engagement, cross-cultural synergy and shared advantages, China and Africa will perform wide-ranging actions that contain various communities and sectors, specializing in schooling, tradition, tourism, publishing, sports activities, science and know-how, individuals’s livelihood and inexperienced improvement, pooling the strengths of youth, ladies, media and assume tanks, and mobilizing assets at sub-national and non-governmental ranges. This system will embrace however not restricted to the next:
To encourage mutual studying and foster enduring friendships among the many youthful era, the 2 sides will intensify youth exchanges by convening the China-Africa Youth Pageant, the China-Africa Youth Tradition Discussion board, the China-Africa Future Leaders’ Dialogue, and the China-Africa Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competitors, establishing the China-Africa Youth Area Alliance, and facilitating visits by younger African political get together leaders and authorities officers to China for research journeys and multilateral exchanges.
To advertise mutual understanding, mutual affinity and mutual appreciation between the 2 peoples, the 2 sides will advance exchanges within the fields of tradition, tourism, movie and tv, publishing, sports activities, and so forth. by means of actions such because the China-Africa Change Month That includes Cultural Silk Street, the China-Africa Cultural and Tourism Change Convention, the Convention on Dialogue Between Chinese language and African Civilizations, the China-Africa Wushu Convention, and the China-Africa Audio-Visible Program Screening. The 2 sides may even promote web celeb interplay, and encourage holding picture exhibitions in one another’s international locations and taking part in e-book exhibitions and different cultural and tourism promotion occasions hosted by the opposite facet.
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To convey extra tangible advantages of China-Africa friendship to the individuals, the 2 sides will deepen exchanges and cooperation within the areas of well being, poverty discount, public welfare, livelihood, well-being of individuals with disabilities, and so forth. by holding such actions because the FOCAC Poverty Discount and Improvement Convention, the “100 Medical Groups in 1,000 Villages” program and the Seminar on Poverty Discount and Improvement for African Officers, and facilitating the institution of extra sister-city relations.
To reinforce sharing of expertise in nationwide governance and modernization, the 2 sides will step up change of concepts amongst assume tanks and media, and on the people-to-people degree, by organizing occasions such because the Seminar on Chinese language Modernization and African Improvement, and the China-Africa Friendship Group Leaders Assembly. China will invite delegations from the African Union’s Financial, Social and Cultural Council and African international locations to go to China for analysis and exchanges.
To translate expertise assets into drivers of modernization, the 2 sides will strengthen exchanges and cooperation in schooling, vocational coaching, ladies’s empowerment, ICT and AI applied sciences by means of the China-Africa Innovation Cooperation and Improvement Discussion board, the Functionality Enhancement Program for African Feminine Leaders, the African Ladies Entrepreneurship Empowerment Program, and the African Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, and so forth.
On the finish of the 12 months, the China-Africa 12 months of Folks-to-Folks Exchanges will conclude with a ceremony to take inventory of the occasions held all year long, showcase the achievements, and difficulty certificates for exemplary initiatives. There may even be cultural performances on the ceremony.
Each side will invite Chinese language and African media to cowl the actions of the 12 months, invite the related establishments of the 2 sides to advertise the actions and their outcomes, and faucet into the potential of recent media corresponding to social media and self-media platforms, to encourage better public engagement and amplify the influence of the 12 months.
Editor’s Notice: The views entertained on this article don’t essentially mirror the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
