The China-Africa Joint Chamber of Commerce will be formally set
up on Sunday, said Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion
of International Trade (CCPIT) Wan Jifei.
Wan made the announcement together with Mohamed El Masry, head
of the Union of African Chambers of Commerce, Industry,
Agriculture, and Professions (UACCIAP), during the meeting of the
High-level Dialogue and 2nd Conference of Chinese and African
Entrepreneurs, which was held on Saturday afternoon.
The China-Africa Joint Chamber of Commerce, which is jointly
established by the CCPIT and UACCIAP, is aimed at developing
cooperation between business circles of China and Africa.
The proposal to set up such a chamber was raised in the first
ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in
2000. The UACCIAP was established in Cairo, Egypt, in April
2005.
(Xinhua News Agency November 4, 2006)