I've noticed that the outside world is showing great interest in Sino-African relations in recent years. There are increasing discussions and media reports on this topic. Many foreign parliamentary delegations also asked about China's attitude and stance on African issues while visiting China. For China, Africa, home to the largest number of developing countries, has always been the basis for China's diplomacy. For a long time, African countries have provided important support to China in international political affairs and they are the forces China must rely on in realizing peaceful development - also economically, African countries are China's important partners. It is a long-term fundamental policy of China to unite and cooperate with African countries.

China's new leadership has a clear focus in developing friendship and cooperation with Africa. While visiting Africa, President Xi positioned Sino-African relationship as "a community of shared destinies" and vividly illustrated China's Africa policy with words like "sincerity," "real results," "affinity" and "good faith." He noted that China will intensify, not weaken, its efforts to expand relations with Africa. Against the current background of complicated global changes, it is important for China and African countries to strengthen unity and coordination so as to effectively deal with challenges and maintain the interests of developing countries.

Legislatures can maximize the advantages in governmental and non-governmental channels and China's NPC has established sound exchange and cooperative relations with parliaments of various African countries, including Nigeria and Uganda.

The emphasis of our work now includes: First, providing legal services for Sino-African cooperation. In recent years, an increasing number of Chinese people are going to Africa for investment and development opportunities; so is the number of African people coming to China for doing business and seeking advanced studies. On the one hand, we should urge the governments to earnestly protect citizens' legal rights and interests and adopt better measures to facilitate personnel exchange by consulting and signing related agreements; while on the other hand, we should strengthen education on the citizens of our respective countries, helping them improve their legal awareness so that they will abide by the laws of the countries where they live and work and get along in harmony with local people.

Second, carrying forward the traditional friendship jointly established and nurtured by leaders of the previous generations. In promoting the deep friendship between China and Africa, we should extensively present success stories on Sino-African cooperation so as to broaden public opinion and intensify our increasingly stronger and prosperous relations. The foundation of Sino-African friendship is among the people and our hope is placed on the youth. We should enable people, especially the youth, to learn more about each other so as to infuse the Sino-African friendship with new vitality.

Third, communicating ideas more effectively. By sharing experiences, we learn about each other's development, and by introducing China's history of development, we encourage African countries to choose their own development paths that suit local conditions.

Fourth, bridging Sino-African pragmatic cooperation. Utilizing the advantages of numerous talented people and wide connections, legislatures can actively assist to solve the difficulties and problems that emerge in cooperative activities.