Young Africans encouraged to carry forward friendship

President Xi Jinping has called on Africa's younger generation to carry on the spirit of friendly cooperation between China and Africa and make their contributions to building a higher-level China-Africa community with a shared future.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks on Wednesday in replying to 120 young and middle-aged officials of the six former liberation movements from the Southern African Development Community, which are now the governing parties of their respective countries.

They wrote to Xi recently after participating in a training session organized by the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Tanzania, expressing their firm determination to pass on and intensify China-Africa friendship and cooperation.

In his reply letter, Xi said he was pleased to learn that they had exchanges and discussions about how a governing party should lead a country in securing the development it wants.

Realizing national development and rejuvenation requires strenuous efforts from one generation to another, and building a better world needs countries to promote exchanges and learn from each other, he added.

Xi expressed his hope that the officials who participated in the session will use what they learned to exert themselves in realizing national vitalization and African rejuvenation.

China has provided support for the construction of the leadership school, which is a joint effort of the six parties in serving southern Africa in terms of training in leadership skills and political principles, with the goal of strengthening unity and cooperation in liberating African economies.

The parties are Tanzania's Chama Cha Mapinduzi, the African National Congress of South Africa, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, the South West Africa People's Organization of Namibia, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Mozambique Liberation Front.