Xi Jinping welcomed Felix Tshisekedi to attend the FOCAC Beijing Summit. Xi Jinping noted that he and Tshisekedi jointly elevated the China-DRC relationship to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership in May last year. Many common understandings reached between the two heads of state then have been implemented. Bilateral practical cooperation in various fields has advanced by leaps and bounds, benefiting both sides. It is of strategic significance and serves as a model for developing countries to jointly advance modernization. China is comprehensively advancing Chinese modernization with high-quality development, while the DRC is entering a new stage of national development and revitalization.
The two countries are partners on the path to modernization and should be sincere friends with common ideals and beliefs, mutually beneficial partners, and good friends working together for peace. China supports the DRC in safeguarding national sovereignty and realizing independent development, and is ready to consolidate political mutual trust with the DRC, firmly support each other, seek common development, deepen cooperation in agriculture, mineral products processing, vocational training and other fields, and continue to help the DRC turn its resource advantage into momentum for development.Xi Jinping stressed that at the summit, China and Africa will define the new positioning of China-Africa relations, announce a series of major measures to jointly advance modernization, and draw a new blueprint together for the growth of China-Africa relations.
China is ready to work with the DRC to seize historic opportunities, strengthen strategic mutual trust, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, join hands to promote China-Africa cooperation, jointly safeguard the common interests of developing countries, and encourage countries in the "Global South" to pursue peace and development in a changing world.
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