African college hailed

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, sent a congratulatory message to the groundbreaking ceremony of Julius Nyerere Leadership College in Tanzania on Monday.

The college was jointly built by the the leading political parties of Tanzania, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Xi sent congratulations on behalf of the CPC and in his own name, saying the six parties in southern Africa are important forces in their countries' struggles for national liberation and economic development.