2015年CRI China to Enhance Cooperation with Africa for Win-win Results

 

Wang Yi has pledged that China will continuously help African countries with their economic development and enhance cooperation for what he called 'win-win' results.

He said President Xi Jinping will expound¹ China's new concepts for developing China-Africa relations in his speech to the summit.

"President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote speech to the whole of Africa at the opening session of the summit, to expound China's new concepts, new policies and new ideas for developing the relations with Africa and introduce a series of key measures in handling China-Africa relations in the future."

The minister made the remarks at the 15th Lanting Forum² held in Beijing on Thursday.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.

Wang Yi said the FOCAC forum will be upgraded from the ministerial level to a summit of leaders.

He said the upgrading meets expectations from African nations and also meets the needs of the development of China-Africa relations.

He also said the summit will review and adopt two documents, outlining cooperation plans between the two sides over the coming three years.

"We will focus on helping³ African countries build three systems - industrialization, food safety and public health, and disease prevention as a way to resolve the three issues of employment, food and health."

Wang Yi added that anti-terrorism will also be among topics at the summit.

"As China continues to promote pragmatic cooperation between China and Africa, we will strengthen bilateral⁴ cooperation in counter-terrorism and the fight against extremism. No matter what difficulties we encounter, the Chinese people will stand firmly together with the African people, because we are good friends, good partners, and close brothers, hand in hand."

Last week, Militants⁵ attacked a hotel in Malian capital of Bamako last week, killing⁶ 22 people, including three Chinese.

FOCAC was established in 2000, aimed at promoting cooperation between China and Africa through dialogue.

This year's session is scheduled to open on December 4th in Johannesburg.

Trade between China and Africa exceeded 220 billion US dollars last year.

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1 expound   

v.详述；解释；阐述

参考例句：

• Why not get a diviner to expound my dream?为什么不去叫一个占卜者来解释我的梦呢？
• The speaker has an hour to expound his views to the public.讲演者有1小时时间向公众阐明他的观点。

2 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

3 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

4 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

5 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

6 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。