Q & A

What do you expect the Asian-African Conference to achieve?

Strengthening cooperation between Asia and Africa will not only help to stimulate the vitality of their collective economies, but will also give full play to their role as engines of the global economy. I think the participants at the conference will also discuss how global governance could give more assistance to developing countries. Moreover, I think the conference will continue to carry forward the spirit of the Bandung Conference (the first such event, held in 1955) by seeking common ground while shelving differences and striving for peaceful coexistence, which is significant in the current international situation.

Xu Weizhong, executive director and research professor at the Institute of African Studies, which operates under the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations