President Ramaphosa visit to the People Republic of China follows bilateral ties heralded by the fourth state visit of President Xi Jinping to South Africa in August 2023. The visit by President Ramaphosa reaffirmed the special and growing friendship between the two countries and recommitted to working together towards building a high-quality China-South Africa community with a shared future.
the two Heads of State agreed to elevate the bilateral relationship to an all-round strategic cooperative partnership in the new era, underpinned by strong political ties and focused on a prosperous future with balanced trade, and accelerated transformative economic growth. The Heads of State reached a series of important common understandings:
Some of the discussions between the two parties include amongst others:
To continue the relationship that started 26 years ago between China and South Africa. The meeting also offered an opportunity for China to congratulate President Ramaphosa re-election as the President of South Africa. People Republic of China President believes that under Ramaphosa leadership, The South African government of national unity will achieve success in building a united and prosperous South Africa.
The two sides agreed to work on strengthening cooperation and synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan and to continue implementing the 10 Years Strategic Program of Cooperation between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa (2020-2029), as a blueprint towards more substantive outcomes on priority political, socio-economic issues between the two sides.
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Key amongst the discussions is to provide a stable, fair and enabling business environment for companies from both sides and to ensuring the safety and legitimate rights and interests of the relevant personnel, projects and institutions. The two sides encouraged mutual visits by economic and trade delegations, including co-hosting the New Energy Investment Conferences by chambers or associations of commerce from both sides, and holding the Jobs Fair of Chinese-Invested Enterprises in South Africa to boost local employment and improve people’s lives.
This visit will pave way for many companies in South Africa going expanding their businesses to the republic of China and also the same with Companies that originates from China to trade freely in South Africa. The two leaders also support a comprehensive reform of the UN, including its Security Council, with a view to making it more democratic, representative, effective and efficient, and to increase the representation of developing countries in the Council’s memberships so that it can adequately respond to prevailing global challenges and support the legitimate aspirations of emerging and developing countries to play a greater role in international affairs, in particular in the United Nations, including its Security Council.
China commended President Ramaphosa for scheduling to co-host the high level session on “industrialization, agricultural modernization and green development – the path to modernization”.
The two sides agreed that President Ramaphosa’s visit to China was successful and carried great significance in terms of promoting China-South Africa relations and building a high-level China-Africa community, with a shared future. President Ramaphosa expressed his heartfelt appreciation to President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Government and People for their warm hospitality during the State Visit to China.
