Beijing, October 17th—Song Tao, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met here today with Bashiru Ally, Secretary-General of the Revolutionary Party (CCM) of Tanzania.

Song welcomed Bashiru to lead the study group of the CCM’s National Executive Council to visit China, and spoke highly of China-Tanzania friendly relations. Song expressed that China and Tanzania enjoy profound traditional friendship. After the election as Chinese President in 2013, President Xi Jinping made Tanzania the first stop in Africa of his overseas visit, which has opened a new chapter in China-Tanzania friendship. The CPC and the CCM have maintained friendly exchanges and cooperation for a long time, which not only becomes a model of exchanges between political parties of China and Africa, but also leads the constant and forward-looking development of China-Tanzania relations. The CPC is willing to further strengthen high-level exchanges and strategic communication between the two Parties, deepen exchanges of experience in state governance and administration, advance multilateral exchanges between political parties, and promote bilateral practical cooperation, in a bid to elevate China-Tanzania comprehensive cooperative partnership featuring mutual benefit and win-win cooperation to new highs through the new cooperation outcomes between the two Parties.

Bashiru once again congratulated on the successful holding of the Africa Thematic Event of the CPC in Dialogue with World Political Parties High-Level Meeting in July in Tanzania, as well as the successful holding of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in September in Beijing. Regarding China as a sincere friend of Africa, the Tanzanian side highly commends President Xi Jinping’s important speech at the Beijing Summit, and believes that the speech will surely guide and promote China-Africa cooperation to open up a new era. The Tanzanian side firmly supports and actively participates in China-Africa cooperation, and will further intensify the relations between the CCM and the CPC and comprehensively strengthen Tanzania-China practical cooperation in various areas.

Wang Ke, Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania, and Guo Yezhou, Vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended the meeting.

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