Insights丨Foreign Minister of Senegal: China wants universal wellbeing for all people

(ECNS) --"There is a long history of Africa and China supporting each other", said Foreign Minister Yassine Fall of Senegal, the incumbent African co-chair of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) at the 2024 FOCAC summit.

In the interview with China News Network, she describes the image of China in her eyes, saying, "In the values of the Chinese, China and Africa should develop together, and there should be a universal wellbeing for all people, universal modernization of economies, of countries."

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, joined by Foreign Minister Yassine Fall of Senegal and Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Congo Jean-Claude Gakosso, the incoming African co-chair, met and took questions from Chinese and foreign journalists on Thursday.

Speaking of this FOCAC summit, Fall highly praised the fruits it bears. In her view, the summit means that Africa-China communication is becoming diversified.

Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said the Chinese people will not forget that it was the African brothers who "carried" the New China into the United Nations, to which Fall had an emotional response.

"Our relationship with China is really win-win," she put it this way describing Africa-China ties while tracing back to the last century. She said the relationship has a long history because China has been among the countries who always support and defend African nations for their independence, and after independence, supporting African nations in their development.

Since coming to Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, Fall has visited China many times and witnessed China's economic development, social changes, and scientific and technological progress. These advancements have shown her enormous possibilities of Africa-China cooperation.

She called on Africa and China to strengthen economic and trade cooperation, and hoped that China's private sector would become models for African enterprises to learn from, thereby creating more job opportunities in Africa. In her view, China's expertise, science and technology can energize African businesses.

Moreover, Fall urged Africa and China to intensify cultural communication, so that African artisans from all categories can come to China to learn from artistic creation.

People-to-people exchange is another genre to be highlighted, noted Fall. It is her wish that young people from both sides can interact through technology transfers and skill trainings.

Fall stressed, "The world is always competing, but when you do well and you will show the evidence. Nobody can hide the evidence."