{"id":37871,"date":"2018-07-17T15:20:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/jinping-visit-to-rwanda-to-strengthen-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:58:22","slug":"jinping-visit-to-rwanda-to-strengthen-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/jinping-visit-to-rwanda-to-strengthen-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinping visit to Rwanda to strengthen cooperation\u2014Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Envoy was speaking yesterday in Kigali ahead of the president\u2019s two-day state visit to Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Chinese Ambassador to Rwanda, I firmly believe President Xi\u2019s upcoming visit will be of historic significance and will bring China-Rwanda relationship into a new era,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>{{Deepening political trust}}<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAdhering to the principles of sincerity, practical results, affinity and good faith, and upholding the values of friendship, justice and shared interests, China will work with Rwanda and all other friendly African nations, carry out more exchanges on governance and guidelines of development, so as to pave a broader and more solid road of mutual benefit and common development for China and Africa,\u201d Hongwei said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the visit will increase programmatic cooperation where Jinping and President Paul Kagame are expected to witness the signing of a number of Memorandum of Understandings and agreements. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese will enable China and Rwanda to further match our development strategies and seek to harvest more fruits across multiple areas, including the Belt and Road Initiative, public health, human resource training, mining and law enforcement cooperation among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy said that the visit will broaden regional cooperation. He said that it remains a cornerstone of China\u2019s foreign policy to consolidate China\u2019s relations with Rwanda and other African nations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina values the important contribution to the solidarity and development of Africa that President Kagame has made after assuming the rotating chairman of the African Union and coordinator of the AU reform. China and Rwanda will further enhance collaboration in regional and international arena and uphold the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>China is the World\u2019s second largest economy, largest industrial producer, largest trader in goods, and largest holder of foreign exchange reserves. Over the past four decades, thanks to the policies of reform and opening up, China\u2019s economy has been growing an average annual rate of 9.5% and its foreign trade at 14.5%.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, China\u2019s contribution to global growth has been exceeding 30%.<\/p>\n<p>Jinping will start his visit to Rwanda from July 22nd to July 23rd 2018.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26248 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ambasaderi_w_u_bushinwa_mu_rwanda_rao_hongwei_yavuze_ko_igihugu_cye_cyashyize_imbaraga_mu_gushyigikira_u_rwanda_kubera_ukwihuta_mu_bikorwa_by_iterambere-965f2.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Ambassador to Rwanda, Rao Hongwei \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26247 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iki_kiganiro_cyitabiriwe_n_abanyamakuru_bo_mu_rwanda_no_hanze_yarwo-b4fde.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Ambassador to Rwanda, Rao Hongwei speaks to the media yesterday\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Rwanda next week, the Chinese Ambassador to Rwanda, Rao Hongwei has revealed that the visit will shift China-Rwanda cooperation into a higher gear and upgrade bilateral relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37871"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37871"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}