Jiangsu-Africa Cooperation and Exchange Conference and China-Africa Regional Government Cooperation Forum Jiangsu Sub-forum was held in Nantong on Tuesday.
This event was hosted by the Foreign Affairs Office of the People's Government of Jiangsu Province and the People's Government of Nantong City.
Officials from relevant departments and cities in Jiangsu Province, as well as envoys and government officials of African countries such as Nigeria, Egypt, Namibia, and Cape Verde participated in the event and delivered speeches both offline and online.
Yang Jing, deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, said in her speech that this event will comprehensively review Jiangsu's exchanges with Africa and systematically plan the next stage of cooperation. At the same time, it will contribute wisdom and help to the China-Africa Cooperation Forum to be held in Senegal in the near future.
She suggested that Jiangsu and African countries will intensify their efforts in friendship-city exchanges, economic and trade cooperation, medical and health, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges so as to improve the level of cooperation, and build a closer China-Africa community with a shared future through more pragmatic regional cooperation.
Pan Jianhua, Deputy Mayor of Nantong City, said that as a new growth engine for Jiangsu's high-quality development, Nantong has implemented the national policy of exchanges with Africa for many years and attached great importance to the friendly cooperation with African countries. At present, Nantong and African countries are eager to continue to tap the potential of cooperation and share development opportunities. It is hoped that all parties will use this event as an opportunity to continue to promote cultural exchanges, economic and trade exchanges and medical cooperation.
This cooperation and exchange meeting is also an important part of the 4th China-Africa Local Government Cooperation Forum, which aims to promote exchanges and cooperation between China and Africa and help China and Africa jointly build an important exchange platform for the "Belt and Road".
The conference was divided into the themes of "friendship and mutual progress", "cooperation and win-win", "knowledge sharing" and "healthy co-building". Officials, business representatives and scholars from Jiangsu and Africa discussed exchange of friendship cities, economic and trade investment, education and research, and health care and the background and future prospects of the two-way cooperation.
The launching ceremony of the Jiangsu-Africa Cooperation High-Quality Development Alliance was also held at the meeting. The alliance will bring together government departments, medical education and research institutions, parks and enterprises in Jiangsu and Africa to build an exchange and cooperation mechanism with extensive coverage, participation and inclusiveness, and create new momentum for cooperation with Africa for win-win cooperation and common development. , New pattern.
Under the strategic framework of China-Africa cooperation, Jiangsu has focused on implementing the “Eight Major Actions” between China and Africa by formulating an exchange plan with Africa every year to coordinate and promote cooperation in various fields. At present, Jiangsu has established 20 pairs of sister cities in Africa with the network of sister cities beginning to take shape.
At present, Jiangsu has established 20 pairs of sister cities in Africa, and the volume of import and export trade with African countries has grown rapidly. The province has also sent medical teams to African countries, and many hospitals and universities have launched pairing-up assistance cooperation mechanism with African countries.
