The People’s Republic of China has boasted of creating over 1.1 million jobs over the past three years in Africa through Chinese Enterprises operating on the continent.
By Lincoln G. Peters
Beijing, China, March 10, 2025/ Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says. China’s cooperation with Africa continues to yield visible and tangible results.
“China remains one of Africa’s largest trade partners for over sixteen years. My African brothers and sister, China Africa Corporation is visible, tangible and truly a vision,” Mr. Wang said while addressing a press conference dominated by African journalists in Beijing over the weekend.
“In the past three years alone,” he continued, “Chinese enterprises created more than 1.1 million new jobs in Africa.”
Addressing the elaborate press conference, Mr. Wang argued that the China-Africa cooperation is a strategic partnership that is built on the aspiration of transforming livelihood, advancing industrialization and agricultural modernization.
He further explained that China-Africa cooperation aimed at raising Africa’s voice and representation at the international level, adding that China’s foreign policy stands firmly on international justice and opposes power politics and hegemony.
Mr. Wang further stated that China’s foreign policy also focus on advancing a corporation with a share future inherited in people-centered governance and advancement of the livelihood of people.
According to him, Africa is experiencing a new awakening, and countries should support it in exploring this new development.
He disclosed to local and international journalists from around the African continent that this year marks the beginning of implementing the outcome of the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Beijing Summit.
“Also, this year marks the 20th anniversary of FOCAC. Over the past twenty-five years, China has helped Africa build nearly one hundred kilometers of roads and more than ten thousand kilometers of railways,” he said.
“China stands ready to deliver on the ten partnership action that China and Africa seek to jointly advance modernization, including supporting Africa in accelerating its industrialization, agriculture modernization, implementing zero tariff treatment for 100% tariff free, fostering new sanitary life with new growth to harvest like digital green, and AI industry and promoting one thousand small and beautiful projects, enhancing governance experience sharing and rising representation on voice of Africa in international office,’’ Mr. Wang said while responding to China’s steps toward implementing the FOCAC summit target to enable Africa improved better on its economy and prosperity taking into account current challenges.
He further stated that this year, the D20 summit will be held on the African continent for the first time, adding that the summit supports Africa in carrying out its duties as G20 President and in leading a proper African mark in global governance.
The Chinese Foreign Minister described China and Africa as good friends, saying they are brothers that shared a single future, while noting that under the guidance of China President Xi Jinping and African leaders, the China Africa relationship is now at its best in history.
According to him, China has established strategic partnerships with all African countries that have diplomatic ties with it, and the China Africa Community with the Shared Future has been elevated.
He further indicated that Africa is a third tier of the twenty-first century, and there will be no global modernization without Africa’s modernization. He asserted that the stability of development is quite in true humanity, and the world must listen to Africa and heed its concerns. -Edited by Othello B. Garblah.
