November 26, 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend a forum on China-Africa cooperation via video link next week and China will put forward new measures for cooperation with Africa for the next three years and even longer term in key areas including trade, investment and climate change as well as measures to help the continent fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, senior officials from the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday when the country's first white paper on cooperation between the two sides in the past decades was issued.    

The US factor was not China's consideration in cooperating with Africa, and the expansion of China-Africa cooperation is based on their own logic and practical needs, experts said, noting it is in sharp contrast with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's previous visit, which was aimed at competing with China's influence. 

On Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said that President Xi will attend the opening ceremony of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and deliver a keynote speech by video link in Beijing on November 29.

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