(5 Sep 2024)
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Beijing - 05 September 2024
1. Various of Chinese President Xi Jinping walking into venue and standing by seat
2. Xi and African countries’ leaders having a seat
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, President of China:
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“With its future growth in mind, I propose that bilateral relations between China and all African countries having diplomatic ties with China be elevated to the level of strategic relations (clapping), and that the overall characterization of China-Africa relations be elevated to an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era.”
4. Various of officials and representatives on stage
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Xi Jinping, President of China:
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“China will voluntarily and unilaterally open its market wider. We have decided to give all LDCs (least developed countries) having diplomatic relations with China, including 33 countries in Africa, zero-tariff treatment for 100 percent tariff lines.”
6. Wide officials and representatives on stage
7. Officials on stage clapping
8. Wide of Xi speaking
STORYLINE:
Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to the assembled African leaders Thursday that relations with all African countries that have diplomatic ties with China be elevated to the “strategic” level.
Dozens of African leaders have descended on Beijing for a summit that signals China's influence in a continent that it hopes will be a key ally in pushing back against a U.S.-led global order.
Addressing the leaders, Xi hailed the China-Africa relationship now being “at its best in history” over the nearly 70 years of development and vowed to further elevate the characterization of the overall ties to “an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era.”
China has become a major player in Africa since the forum was founded in 2000.
Its companies have invested heavily in mining for the resources Chinese industry needs and its development banks have made loans to build railways, roads and other infrastructure under Xi's Belt and Road program.
China has become sub-Saharan Africa’s largest bilateral trading partner but exports much more to the continent than it imports.
In part to reduce its trade deficit, African leaders are seeking China's help to expand their agricultural exports and industrialize their economies.
Xi proposed ten actions plans to further deepen cooperation in industry, agriculture, infrastructure and other areas and further open its market — in part by eliminating tariffs on products from most of the world's poorest countries, including 33 in Africa and provide RMB360 billion yuan (50.7bn US dollars) of various financial support.
The relationship has moved beyond trade and investment to take on political overtones as China seeks allies in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world for its competition with the United States to define the norms governing the global economy and how countries interact with each other.
AP video by Wayne Zhang
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