Voice from Senegal: FOCAC vital to China-Africa bonds

The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Dakar, Senegal, could offer a strategic framework for deepening China-Africa relations, said Amadou Diop, a journalist with Senegal’s national daily newspaper Le Soleil.

"By strengthening cooperation in areas as varied as trade, technology, the digital sector, healthcare and infrastructure, China and Africa are developing an even more dynamic and mutually beneficial sharing mechanism, which will eventually lead to a more inclusive economic recovery," Diop told China Daily.

He noted the FOCAC is a strategic framework for deepening China-Africa relations as well as a model cooperation mechanism in that it benefits all stakeholders, especially the African countries, through growing Sino-African trade and rising Chinese investments in Africa.