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A photo exhibition was opened here on Monday to show achievements of China-Africa cooperation since the 2006 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).
The event marked the third anniversary of the Beijing Summit, which was concluded by an announcement of eight measures on bilateral cooperation by Chinese President Hu Jintao.
The show, consisting of over 150 photos, reviewed the Beijing Summit and highlighted high-level China-Africa exchanges, cooperation on trade, economy, security and medicine, and youth and women exchanges, among others.
Officials of the Chinese government, diplomats from African countries and African students in China attended the exhibition.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Li Jinzhang said the exhibition would further strengthen the understanding of China-Africa traditional friendship by people from various circles.
Abdul Karim Koroma, Sierra Leone ambassador to China, said that African people appreciated the great achievements of FOCAC in the economic and social development of African countries.
In 2008, the volume of trade between China and Africa reached 106.8 billion U. S. dollars, including 50.8 billion U.S. dollars worth of Chinese exports to Africa and 56 billion dollars imports from Africa.
Paul Nsahvoundy, Minister Plenipotentiary of Cameroon to China, spent a few minutes in front of the photos on China-Africa agricultural cooperation and read the caption carefully.
Cameroon is an agricultural country, he said, adding that he "appreciated very much the cooperation on agriculture between China and Cameroon and we want more to benefit from China's experience."
Sarah Kaleshi, a student from the Democratic Republic of Congo, was very excited to find that her father was in a photo taken at the Great Wall at the show.
She told Xinhua that her father came to China for an agricultural exchange program in 2008.
She said after her study in China, she would go back to her motherland and work for a stronger friendship between Africa and China.
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