Off the wire
• Roundup: China reiterates commitment to stronger ties with African countries  • Interview: Paris conference can succeed, but climate challenge is huge: Italian experts  • China, Gabon vow to deepen friendship, cooperation  • (Recast) Spotlight: California shooting spree 353rd mass shooting in past 336 days in U.S.  • African Union urges agreement to remove global trade barriers  • British FTSE 100 plunge as ECB's decides on QE  • Urgent: Gold up on weaker U.S. dollar, ECB rate cut  • Spanish stock market plunges 2.41 pct, closes at 10,092 points  • Researchers reveal evolution mechanisms of bacterial predators  • LME base metals prices decrease on Thursday  
You are here: 　 Home

China, Mozambique vow to boost cooperation

Xinhua, December 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

China and Mozambique on Thursday pledged to cement their traditional friendship and deepen bilateral cooperation in a host of areas.

The consensus came as Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his Mozambican counterpart, Filipe Nyusi, prior to the opening of a summit on China-Africa cooperation.

Both China and Mozambique cherish their traditional friendship, said the Chinese president, calling on the two countries to be good friends, good partners and good brothers.

Xi noted that China and the southeastern African country should view their bilateral relationship from a strategic and long-term perspective, and continue to provide support and understanding to each other on issues related to their core interests and major concerns.

He urged the two countries to deepen cooperation of mutual benefits in the areas of energy, mining, manufacturing, agriculture, infrastructure construction, investment and financing.

China and Mozambique, Xi said, should also expand their exchanges and cooperation in such fields as education, culture and tourism, and keep close their coordination in order to safeguard the common interests of developing countries.

For his part, Nyusi stressed the vast potential in cooperation between his country and China, especially in the areas of infrastructure construction, education, energy and water resources development.

Mozambique stands ready to improve its development capability with China's help, he added.

Both Xi and Nyusi are in Johannesburg for the second summit of the 15-year-old Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, which groups China, 50 African countries that have established diplomatic ties with China, and the Commission of the African Union. Endi