On October 29,Wang Xiao, Acting Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Cape Town, was invited to attend the opening ceremony of the African Summit on Preventive Health, hosted by the African Health Policy Alliance. Dr Kenneth Jacobs, Managing Director of the Alliance, Hon Cedric Frolick, House Chairperson of the National Assembly, as well as government officials, members of parliament and experts and scholars from various African countries, including Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Lesotho, attended the event.

Wang Xiao, the Acting Consul General, congratulated the summit on its successful convening. She briefed the audience on the implementation progress of the “China-Africa Health Partnership Action” announced at the 2024 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). She stated that China attaches great importance to strengthening exchanges and cooperation in the field of preventive Health with African countries, including South Africa, and stands ready to work with the African side to implement the various initiatives of the Beijing Summit and jointly advance the building of a China-Africa health community.

Dr Kenneth Jacobs thanked China for its support and expressed his willingness to continue leveraging the alliance’s professional expertise and resource advantages to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China, promote the delivery of more tangible results in the health sector, and bring greater benefits to the people of both sides.