A workshop to train senior auditors from African countries opened Sunday in south China's island province of Hainan.

As part of the consensus reached at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the workshop will greatly enhance the exchange and cooperation between the auditing departments of China and African countries, said Li Jinhua, auditor-general of the National Audit Office (NAO), at the workshop's opening ceremony.

"China is ready to share its experience and lessons in audit practice with African colleagues," said Li.

Twenty-four senior audit officials from 14 African countries will participate in the four-day workshop.

The African auditors will be briefed about China's auditing practices at various levels by the NAO's deputy auditor-general Liu Jiayi.

Other training courses include dealing with false accounting, detecting and cracking down on money laundering, financial embezzlement and corruption as well as supervision over governmental public spending

The seminar will also provide a platform for both African and Chinese auditors to discuss practical audit cases in Beijing, Hainan and Shenzhen.

Ludovick Utouch, top auditor of Tanzania, said he many African countries' audit offices wanted more help from the NAO, and to share knowledge and experience of China's audit practice to improve their own audit abilities.

Senior audit officials from South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sudan, Morocco, Ghana, Gabon, Ethiopia, Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon arrived in Hainan on Saturday to attend the seminar.

The NAO has organized international auditor training courses since 2002. Since then, China has established cooperative relationship in audit-related affairs with 112 countries and regions.

(Xinhua News Agency November 13, 2006)