Outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Wu Sike on Sunday
highlighted China-Egypt strategic cooperation as an example of the
cooperation between developing countries.
Wu made the remarks at a press conference at the Chinese embassy
in Cairo, recalling the implementation of the follow-up actions of
Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
(FOCAC).
"China and Egypt have been bearing good relations in the
political field with frequent high-level mutual visit exchanges in
recent years. In November 2006, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
attended the Beijing Summit and paid his ninth visit to China,
Egypt will host the fourth FOCAC ministerial meeting and Egyptian
People's Assembly speaker Ahmed Fathi Sorour has just finished his
visit to China," Wu noted.
In recent years, the Chinese government has paid more attention
to the bilateral exchanges in the fields of economy, science,
education and culture, the Chinese top diplomat noted, adding that
the bilateral trade is expected to reach about US$4 billion this
year from US$3.19 billion in 2006 and the number of Chinese
enterprises in Egypt currently reaches 352 with the total
investment of about US$430 million.
In the past year, China took great efforts to expand its aid to
Egypt to fund a rural school and a Chinese school, establish an
oversea processing zone in the Suez economic Zone, strengthen human
resources training efforts and facilitated the use of Africa-China
Development Fund.
Wu expressed his belief that the China-Africa strategic
cooperation will be more productive and beneficial to the
development of both countries and their people.
(Xinhua News Agency October 29, 2007)
