Security takes the lead as China-Africa summit draws to a close

Xi said his country will negotiate free-trade agreements with Africa to promote imports from the continent and support the agriculture industry to help create more local jobs.

Adji Ayassor, minister of state in the Togolese Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development Planning, told Xinhua that the Chinese president’s speech told “the truth about the cooperation between China and Africa”.

China firmly supports Somalia’s efforts of national reconstruction and stands ready to increase its aid to the Eastern African country, Chinese President Xi Jinping said here on Friday.

President Xi Jingping is in South Africa reassuring leaders from across the continent with hard cash.

“The strategic partnership and cooperation between Africa and the People’s Republic of China is an important instrument towards the achievement of our development goals”.

In the battle against the grave threat, China provided Guinea and other affected African countries with enormous assistance, which has once again testified to the close friendship between China and Africa and demonstrated the principles of sincerity, real results, affinity and good faith in China’s Africa policy.

China’s top envoy in Africa does not believe his compatriots are being targeted by terrorists on the continent.

The Johannesburg meeting, which opened Friday, is the second summit of the 15-year-old FOCAC.

Xi said that with the African continent and China making up a third of the world’s population, there are new and huge markets to tap and great production possibilities for the two countries to enter into.

China and Africa are always good friends, good partners and good brothers, he added.

“There is no doubt that the rise of China and Africa, as two significant players, will have a positive and far reaching impact in worldwide relations that ensure the democratisation of the internal system of governance”, said President Mugabe.

The two-day summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is the first such top-level gathering to be held in Africa since the grouping was formed in 2000.

“We have successfully concluded all the major tasks of the summit”.

And he added that, on past experience, “the Chinese deliver what they promise”.

To that end, Xi suggested that China and African countries stick to equality-based and win-win cooperation, strike a right balance between principles and profits, and jointly build a community of common destiny.

It would also include $10 billion to boost African capacities. “Some countries raised this at bilateral meetings”.

China’s presence in Africa “is focused on our needs and not on what they can get from us”, Kenyatta said. “Africa has in the region of 1.1 billion people and China has 1.3 billion people”.