00:06The President's President Daniel Francisco Chapeau has arrived in Beijing at the invitation
00:11of China's President Xi Jinping.
00:13President Chapeau is now on the final leg of his week-long state visit to China.
00:18This is actually the first state visit to China by head of states from Mozambique in
00:2310 years and is also President Chapeau's first visit to China since taking office.
00:29And during his stay, Chinese President Xi Jinping will host a welcome ceremony and a banquet
00:35for him.
00:36The two leaders will also have talks.
00:38And Chinese Premier Li Qiang as well as Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing
00:43Committee Zhao Leji will also meet with him.
00:46According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, the visit aimed to promote the development of
00:51the China-Mozambique comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and also to build
00:57the all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era, at the same
01:03time to reinforce solidarity and cooperation in the global south.
01:08In fact, Beijing is the third stop of President Chapeau's China trip and he made central China's
01:13Hunan province his first destination visiting an industrial park in the provincial capital
01:19city of Changsha and also experiencing a number of new energy products.
01:25While the President then traveled to northwest China's Qinghai province and stating his visit
01:30has a focus on developments, President Chapeau said the objective is to strengthen partnerships
01:36in the areas of energy, industry and innovation.
01:41In fact, in December 2024, China began giving Mozambique zero-tariff treatments on all tariff lines.
01:48And according to Chinese authorities, the bilateral trade volume between the two sides hit $5.4 billion
01:54last year, up to 3.6% year-on-year.
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