China's President Xi Jinping has promised to support Africa with 360 billion yuan by 2027 and to help create one million jobs on the African continent.

Xi Jinping, who was speaking at the opening of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit in Beijing, also promised that the country would invest at least 70 billion yuan in the African bloc.

Quoted by the international press, Xi said that the country is ready to deepen cooperation with the continent in the economic field and that relations between China and Africa are going through the best period in history.

During the summit, the leader also announced 30 infrastructure projects and renewed his promise to increase agricultural imports from Africa, an intention he had already expressed at the previous edition of FOCAC in Dakar in 2021.

He also stressed that China will help Africa "promote ecological modernization, green development and the transition to low-carbon technology".

Xi Jinping also said that China would donate 1 billion yuan in military aid to Africa, as well as training 6,000 soldiers.

China is Africa's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade reaching 167.8 billion dollars in the first half of the year, according to the Chinese press.

The summit will be attended by 50 leaders from African countries, including the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, and the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.

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