Vice Foreign Minister Miao Deyu Attends and Addresses Opening Ceremony of Seminar on 70 Years of China-Africa and China-Arab Diplomatic Relations: Jointly Building a Community[...]

On June 17, 2026, Vice Foreign Minister Miao Deyu attended and delivered an address at the opening ceremony of the Seminar on 70 Years of China-Africa and China-Arab Diplomatic Relations: Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future.

Miao Deyu stated that under the vision and guidance of President Xi Jinping and leaders of African and Arab countries, China-Africa and China-Arab relations have achieved leapfrog development, setting an exemplary model for advancing the building of a community with a shared future for humanity. The enduring and ever-strengthening China-Africa and China-Arab friendship stems from our consistent commitment to mutual respect and equal treatment, putting people front and center with a results-oriented work ethic, mutual support and win-win outcomes, as well as fairness, justice, solidarity and coordination. These valuable experience accumulated through practice constitutes a spiritual asset for mutually beneficial cooperation among developing countries. The international landscape today is fraught with intertwined turbulence and transformations, and the adverse current of hegemonism is surging. We need to pool shared visions, step up exchanges on governance experience and align development strategies to jointly open up new prospects for modernization. We shall deepen people-to-people exchanges, successfully host the China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges, and leverage platforms including the China-Arab Research Center on Reform and Development to continuously enrich the contemporary connotations of our time-honored friendship. We must uphold justice and equity, implement the four global initiatives, and jointly advance the building of a community with a shared future for humanity. Having traversed 70 years hand in hand through thick and thin, China and African and Arab nations are bound to embrace an even more brilliant next 70 years featuring mutually beneficial cooperation and common development.

Co-hosted by the Department of African Affairs and the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of the Foreign Ministry and the China Institute of International Studies, the seminar drew around 200 participants, including diplomatic envoys of African and Arab countries to China, experts and scholars.