Having successfully completed all the agenda items, the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation concluded in Beijing on the afternoon of November 5, 2006. Chinese President Hu Jintao, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak read out the Declaration of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. The Summit also adopted the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation - Beijing Action Plan (2007-2009).
In the Declaration it is pointed out that China and Africa enjoy a good tradition of solidarity and cooperation and have been treating each other with sincerity and sharing weal and woe all along and that China-Africa friendship, having withstood the test of time and fluctuating international situation, is getting increasingly strong and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. China and Africa agree that the two sides share common development goals and similar interest under the new situation and therefore enjoy a broad prospect for cooperation. Deepening the traditional friendship and expanding the mutually beneficial cooperation are the only way for China and Africa to achieve common development and prosperity in the new century.
The Declaration identifies the common views of China and Africa concerning international situation and relations.
China and Africa solemnly declare that the two sides decide to establish a new type of strategic partnership featuring political equality and mutual trust, win-win economic co-operation and cultural exchanges, strengthen high-level exchanges, conduct strategic dialogue, increase political mutual trust, consolidate the mutually beneficial cooperation, complement with each other's advantages, reinforce the exchanges of experience in the field of running the state and development, enhance cultural dialogue, promote the communications between the people, especially the youth, enhance international cooperation, advance the building of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and properly handle the new subjects and challenges that occur in the process of cooperation from the perspective of maintaining China-Africa friendliness and the long-term interest of both sides.
To implement the outcome of the Summit, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation - Beijing Action Plan (2007-2009) maps the plan for the cooperation between China and Africa in politics, economy, international affairs and social development in the next 3 years.
The first and the second session of the Round Table Meeting of the Beijing Summit were held on the morning and afternoon of November 5 and moderated by Hu Jintao and Meles Zenawi respectively.
After the Summit ends, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Ali Aboul Gheit met with the journalists together.
On the morning of November 5, Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan met with the representatives of the ministers of African countries present at the closing ceremony of the Conference of Chinese and African Entrepreneurs and attended the signing ceremony of those entrepreneurs. It is reported that the governments and enterprises of African countries signed 14 business contracts and agreements with 11 Chinese enterprises with the value totaling about US$1.9 billion.