Dar es Salaam, July 17th--Xu Lyuping, Vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee met here today with Solly Afrika Mapaila, First Deputy General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and Lechesa Tsenoli, Member of the SACP Central Committee and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa.

Xu spoke highly of the relations between the two parties and expressed the willingness to deepen exchanges and cooperation in all fields with the SACP, so as to elevate the relations of the two countries and the two parties continuously to a new level.

Mapaila and Tsenoli spoke highly of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and expressed that the SACP cherishes its friendship with the CPC and is willing to exchange concept and experience with the CPC in an in-depth manner, so as to promote the in-depth development of the relations of the two countries and the two parties.

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