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The President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo is currently on a state visit to China and holds talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. President Embalo stated that Guinea-Bissau hopes to learn from China’s development experience and strengthen cooperation with China in areas such as trade, investment, infrastructure, and mineral resources.
President Embalo said in recent years, China and Guinea-Bissau have deepened bilateral relations, strengthened political mutual trust, expanded pragmatic cooperation and enhanced international coordination, Xi said China supports Guinea-Bissau in independently exploring a development path that suits its national conditions.
President Xi said China is willing to work with Guinea-Bissau to inherit the traditional friendship, consolidate political mutual trust, expand pragmatic cooperation, continuously enrich the connotation of the strategic partnership between the two countries, and help Guinea-Bissau achieve better national development. He stressed that China stands ready to strengthen friendly exchanges with Guinea-Bissau at all levels, enhance experience-sharing on governance, and expand cooperation in areas such as agriculture, mining, infrastructure construction, and the blue economy under the guidance of the high-quality construction of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Xi said China welcomes high-quality agricultural products from Guinea-Bissau to enter the Chinese market and encourages Chinese enterprises to invest and carry out cooperation in Guinea-Bissau and help Guinea-Bissau transform its resource potential into development momentum. China is willing to continue to provide support within its capacity for Guinea-Bissau’s domestic construction and will continue to send its rice experts and medical teams to assist Guinea-Bissau in ensuring food security and developing public health. Xi called on the two sides to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in education, youth, and other fields to bring the two peoples’ hearts closer. China will continue to provide government scholarships and training opportunities to help Guinea-Bissau cultivate more talents for its national development, he said.
Under the new circumstances, the two sides should join hands to usher in a new era, Xi added. Xi said the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is an important platform for the Chinese and African people to practice the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and promote common development.
President Embalo said China has brought cooperation projects to Africa, including schools, hospitals and roads, delivering benefits to the African people, Embalo said Guinea-Bissau greatly appreciates China’s important role and positive contributions in helping the development of the African continent, and actively supports China in hosting the new FOCAC Summit.
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Guinea-Bissau supports the BRI, the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative proposed by President Xi, and is willing to closely communicate and cooperate with China on multilateral affairs, to jointly build a community with a shared future for humanity.
After the talks, the two heads of state witnessed the signing of multiple bilateral cooperation documents regarding the Global Development Initiative, economic development, customs inspection and quarantine, geology, mining, and other fields. The two sides also issued a joint statement on establishing the strategic partnership.
