(Source: Red Star News 2024-09-06）
On September 5, the 2024 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation opened. According to Xinhua News Agency, President Xi Jinping said in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation that China and Africa account for one-third of the world's total population. Without the modernization of China and Africa, there will be no modernization of the world. In the next three years, China is willing to work with Africa to carry out the ten major China-Africa partnership actions to promote modernization, deepen China-Africa cooperation, and lead the modernization of the global South. First, the partnership action for mutual learning among civilizations. Second, the w88 and Prosperity Partnership Initiative. Third, industrial chain partner actions. Fourth, connectivity partnership actions. Fifth, develop partnership actions. Sixth, health partnership action. Seventh, partnership actions to promote agriculture and benefit the people. Eighth, people-to-people exchange partnership action. Ninth, green development partnership action. Tenth, the partnership action to build security.
Red Star News noted that the ten major partnership actions cover all aspects of China-Africa cooperation.
On September 5, Li Weijian, a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Policy and the Center for West Asian and African Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, said in an interview with Red Star News that the convening of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation shows that China has become increasingly capable of providing tangible help to African countries through its development over the years.
100% tax item products with zero tariff:
Expanding opening up to the least developed countries will help increase exports to China
Li Weijian said that in today's context, the West continues to discredit China in the competitive game with China. However, through comparisons in aid to Africa, some developing countries are increasingly aware of the hypocrisy of Western countries. The international governance system and global governance system led by the United States are increasingly incompatible with the needs of developing countries. China's real willingness to help these countries develop over the years has become increasingly attractive to them.
"The current data on various aspects of China-Africa cooperation are very convincing. I believe that such cooperation will continue to strengthen in the future to achieve common prosperity and common development, and everyone can live a good life." Li Weijian said.
atIn the "Partnership for w88 Prosperity Action", China is willing to take the initiative to unilaterally expand market opening, and decided to grant zero-tariff treatment to all least developed countries that have diplomatic relations with China, including 33 African countries, on 100% of tax items. China has become the first major developing country and the world's major economy to implement this measure, and has promoted China's large market to become a great opportunity for Africa.
Previously, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party proposed“Expanding unilateral opening up to the least developed countries”.
Red Star News noticed,Fifteen years ago at the 2009 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China announced that it would expand its market opening to African products and gradually grant tariff-free treatment to 95% of products from the least developed countries in Africa that have diplomatic relations with China. In 2010, it would first implement tariff-free treatment for 60% of products. Now it will be expanded to 100% of tax items.
Wang Zhimin, researcher at the National Institute for Opening up and Director of the Institute of Globalization and Chinese Modernization, w88 casinoThis evaluation is a reflection of China’s feelings as a great power. At the same time, developing countries are the foundation of our country’s diplomacy. Zero tariffs are a great support to the least developed countries among developing countries, and China currently has this strength. It is worth noting that zero tariffs can increase the exports of these countries to China, promote balanced w88 development, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.
Promoting agriculture, benefiting the people and promoting health:
China’s experience can help Africa
atIn terms of the "Partnership Action to Promote Agriculture and Benefit People", China will provide 1 billion yuan in emergency food assistance to Africa, build a 100,000-acre agricultural standardization demonstration zone, dispatch 500 agricultural experts, and build a China-Africa agricultural science and technology innovation alliance.
What significance does China’s agricultural experience have for Africa? Bill and Melinda· Zheng Zhijie, chief representative of the Gates Foundation Beijing Representative Office, said in an interview with Red Star News that over the past few decades, empirical studies in China and other countries have shown that agricultural growth is more than twice as effective as any other sector in reducing poverty. China's agricultural research and extension system has a wealth of expertise and innovative technologies that can help solve similar challenges faced by other developing regions.
Zheng Zhijie mentioned that the corn yield increase demonstration project carried out by China Agricultural University in Tanzania has significantly increased grain output. The Gates Foundation supports the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences’ cooperation with global partners such as the International Rice Research Institute and the African Rice CenterThe "Green Super Rice" project and the Shanghai Agricultural Biogene Center have further developed "water-saving and drought-resistant rice". These rice varieties are not only helpful in Africa, but have also been widely promoted in China.
Zheng Zhijie emphasized that while gradually helping Africa increase crop production, it is also particularly important to help the local area build a more complete agricultural value chain so that the planting of new crop varieties can truly increase the economic income of local African farmers.
atIn terms of the "Health Partnership Action", China is willing to establish a China-Africa Hospital Alliance with Africa to jointly build a joint medical center. We will dispatch 2,000 medical team members to Africa, implement 20 medical and anti-malarial projects, encourage Chinese companies to invest in drug production, and continue to provide the best possible help to Africa's epidemic situation. Support the construction of the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and improve the public health capabilities of African countries.
To this,Wang Zhiminsaid that China and African countries have a long history of medical cooperation, starting fromWe have been sending medical teams to Africa since 1963, and we have an extensive tradition of mutual support. Chinese doctors have been exposed to many medical cases and have rich experience. This is mutual understanding and mutual support among developing countries.
“China has accumulated a lot of experience in continuously improving the prevention and control of infectious diseases, which can provide practical help to other developing countries.” Zheng Zhijie pointed out from the perspective of public health that in recent years, in addition to traditional health assistance, China has also been more actively supporting China-Africa public health cooperation, and malaria is a prominent example. China used to have 30 million malaria cases every year, but it has obtained malaria-free certification from the World Health Organization in 2021. This is a remarkable achievement. I believe that China's rich experience in malaria elimination and other fields can help Africa improve its prevention and control capabilities.
Zheng Zhijie said that the Gates Foundation has been cooperating with partners in China and around the world to support the anti-malaria cause in African countries and promote the localization of China's anti-malaria experience in Africa according to local conditions. For example, the new malaria prevention and control model explored in Tanzania has achieved remarkable results. Such development cooperation projects in the field of public health are more conducive to systematically promoting the long-term development of local health undertakings in Africa.
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