FOCAC a platform for fruitful cooperation

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Senegalese Foreign Minister Yacine Fall and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Congo Jean-Claude Gakosso meet the press during the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Beijing on Thursday. Through joint efforts under the frameworks of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the China International Import Expo and the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, China and Africa have made continuous and solid progress in fields such as industry, agriculture and health, epitomizing the unique resilience and vitality of African countries and their relations with China. Thus, at the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in November 2021, China announced the establishment of a "green channel" which would allow African countries to export agricultural products to China. The Benin Sugar Loaf variety made its debut through the 6th China International Import Expo and was majestically welcomed by Chinese consumers since it has almost no acidity in comparison with Asian pineapples. Mauritian Victoria pineapples, benefiting from a zero tax through the Mauritius-China Free Trade Agreement, might make its debut at the forthcoming 7th China International Import Expo if facilitated by the "green channel" proposed at the 8th FOCAC meeting in 2021.