Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 2, 2018.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) holds talks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 2, 2018.
Africa, as one of the major overseas business cooperation zones of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), has yielded fruitful results from China-Africa oil cooperation. Starting oil collaboration with Africa in 1995, the CNPC, China’s largest oil and gas producer, has won high reputation from local governments and society thanks to the huge contribution it made to local economy, society and people’s livelihood.
China and Africa have worked together to implement the ten-major cooperation plans as scheduled since the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held three years ago, which has broadened and deepened bilateral economic and trade cooperation and brought tangible benefits to the two peoples, said a senior Chinese official. Chinese Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan wrote so in a signed article published on People's Daily on Friday, days ahead of the two-day 2018 FOCAC Beijing Summit to be kicked off on Sept.