15th Five-Year Plan will promote Africa-China cooperation: African scholar

The "Understand China" program, produced by People's Daily Online, aims to interpret China's planning, opportunities, and governance, to eliminate misunderstandings, and to enhance comprehension and recognition between Chinese and international audiences through in-depth dialogues between Chinese and foreign scholars.

This episode of "Understand China" features a conversation between Liu Hongwu, director of the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University, and Yoro Diallo, a 2024 Chinese Government Friendship Award recipient, senior researcher at the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University, and director of the Institute's African Museum.

"In the past 25 years, China has helped Africa to realize what the West in three centuries never realized in Africa," explained Diallo. He expressed hope that the recommendations of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) will both promote cooperation as well as help Africa achieve the goals outlined in the continent's "Agenda 2063," adding more "stories of success" to the collective journey of modernization between Africa and China.

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