国内英语新闻:Chinese vice president's trip achieves goals

Deepening mutually beneficial and practical cooperation in such fields as economy and trade with the four countries is the major theme of Vice President Xi's visits, Zhai said, adding that Xi made use of various opportunities to point out the direction and focus of bilateral cooperation to enhance the desire of all sides to cooperate with China.

When visiting Singapore, Xi spoke highly of the achievements the two sides have made in developing practical cooperation and made proposals on improving the existing cooperation mechanism and layout, continuing to implement landmark cooperation projects and enhancing the pertinence and efficiency of human resources development cooperation.

When visiting South Africa, Xi co-hosted the 4th plenary session of the China-South Africa Bi-National Commission along with South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and the two countries have reached broad agreement on implementing the consensus reached between the heads of states as well as goals and objectives contained in the Beijing Declaration on the Establishment of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

To promote and deepen practical cooperation with South Africa in an all-round way, Xi said China is willing to start from promoting a balanced growth of bilateral trade and enhancing cooperation in the fields of infrastructure construction, manufacturing, mining, green economy and finance.

Xi's visits to Angola and Botswana gave a strong impetus to the existing cooperation projects between China and the countries, Zhai said.

Xi reached consensus with the two countries in developing mutually beneficial cooperation in infrastructure, energy and investment, Zhai said, adding that China would give an aid of 60 million Chinese yuan (9.04 million U.S. dollars) and 40 million yuan (6.02 million dollars) to Angola and Botswana, respectively.

During the visits, the Chinese vice president said enhancing cooperation between China and Africa is the general trend of development and the common aspiration of the peoples, and the foundation of China-Africa relations is more solid than ever and there is hugh potential for bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

Xi added that, in the 12th Five-Year Plan period from 2011 to 2015, China would encourage more Chinese enterprises to "go global" and gradually improve the industrial layout of its "go global" strategy in Africa, according to Zhai.