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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Dar es Salaam, January 10 (Xinhua) — China and Tanzania are friends with a shared destiny, and the friendship nurtured and fostered by elder leaders remains the two countries' most precious spiritual asset, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday.
Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee, made the statement during a meeting with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
S. Suluhu Hassan asked Wang Yi to convey New Year's greetings and best wishes to Chinese President Xi Jinping, and also thanked China for its significant support for Tanzania's development within the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FCAC).
The Tanzanian side firmly adheres to the one-China principle, the President emphasized, adding that Tanzania is willing to align its development plans with China, deepen practical cooperation, promote the revival of the Tanzania-Zambia railway and the construction of a regional prosperity belt, strengthen inter-party exchanges, expand people-to-people contacts, and promote economic growth, benefiting the peoples of the two countries.
S. Suluhu Hassan commended the four major global initiatives put forward by Xi Jinping, stating that Tanzania is willing to strengthen multilateral coordination with China and jointly promote a more equitable and rational global governance system.
For his part, the Chinese Foreign Minister conveyed Xi Jinping's warm greetings to S. Suluhu Hassan, noting that China and Tanzania are friends with a shared destiny. The friendship between the two countries was founded and nurtured by senior leaders, has withstood the test of a volatile international environment, and remains a most precious spiritual asset, he emphasized.
The two sides should jointly continue to develop this friendship and enrich it with new content for the era, the Chinese Foreign Minister stated, noting that China attaches great importance to relations between the two parties and the two countries.
He said China is willing to work with Tanzania to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen exchanges of experience in public administration, deepen practical cooperation, enhance people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and promote the continuous development of the China-Tanzania comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.
The Chinese Foreign Minister added that China highly appreciates Tanzania's firm adherence to the one-China principle and supports it in safeguarding its sovereignty, independence and national dignity, and pursuing a development path suited to its national conditions.
The Chinese diplomat emphasized that both sides should actively promote high-quality development of interstate cooperation and make the renovated Tanzania-Zambia railway an engine for regional development.
China supports Tanzania in playing a more active role in regional and international affairs, and is willing to work with Tanzania and other developing countries to be a force for peace, stability and progress in the world, Wang Yi concluded.
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