On November 20, 2013, Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun, upon invitation, attended and addressed the opening ceremony of the Fourth Round-Table Conference on China-Africa Cooperation held in Wanning, China's Hainan Province.
Zhai Jun highly appreciated the achievements obtained in various fields of the development of China-Africa relations in recent years, and emphasized the importance of President Xi Jinping's visit to Africa this March, which has injected new impetus to the development of China-Africa relations and has ushered a new climate and fruitful results for the China-Africa relations. Zhai Jun noted that the successful convening of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will spur China's economy and society to develop into higher level, which will create greater opportunities for China-Africa cooperation, as Africa is now rising as a new growth pole in the world economy. Under the backdrop of the thriving China-Africa relations with great momentum, Chinese enterprises, as both the propellers of China-Africa cooperation and disseminators of China-Africa friendship, should show better respects to Africa, cooperate with Africa to achieve win-win outcomes, and make new greater contributions to the development of China-Africa relations.
This conference was hosted by the Association of Former Diplomats of China and the People's Government of Hainan Province. Former V ice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Gu Xiulian, former Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Huang Mengfu, former Namibian President Sam Nujoma, former Malian interim President Dioncounda Traore, envoys of African countries to China, representatives of Chinese and African enterprises and scholars attended the opening ceremony and related activities.