Working Together for Common Development and a Shared Future

Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation on September 3, 2018. 

“Working Together for Common Development and a Shared Future” is a keynote speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation on September 3, 2018. According to the speech, China and Africa should work together to build a China-Africa community with a shared future to assume our joint responsibility, pursue win-win cooperation, deliver happiness for all of us, enjoy cultural prosperity, enjoy common security, and promote harmony between man and nature. They should launch eight major initiatives: an industrial promotion initiative, an infrastructure connectivity initiative, a trade facilitation initiative, a green development initiative, a capacity building initiative, a health care initiative, a people-to-people exchange initiative and a peace and security initiative.