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By Staff Reporters?

The three-day?2023 China-Africa Innovation Cooperation and Development Forum?kicked off in Wuhan, Hebei province in central China on July?6 with the aim of?promoting?science and technology innovation cooperation and technology?transfer,?inclusive and mutually beneficial international?cooperation, and jointly building?a?community of shared future for?all.

Co-hosted?by?China’s?Ministry of Science and Technology?(MOST)?and the?local?government, it introduced?parallel activities?on?China-Africa sci-tech cooperation under the framework of?the?Belt?and Road Initiative?and?showcased?the results of?cooperation in?advanced?technology.

Zhang Guangjun,?Vice?Minister of?MOST, said the ministry?will work with African countries to?expand exchanges?and create cooperation platforms to improve the level of scientific research.?It?will accelerate the?industrialization of?successful?innovations?and?promote?a high-level?China-Africa?community?of?shared future.

Wang Zhonglin,?Governor of Hubei, said?there will be new?projects?in?public health, poverty alleviation,?trade?and?people-to-people exchanges?so that innovation?can benefit more?people?in?Africa.?Inrecent years, Hubei has strengthened cooperation with African countries in sci-tech innovation?for?mutual development and prosperity.?

The forum also launched a?China-Africa youth innovation and entrepreneurship competition?focusing on the?digital economy,?recycling economy, services?and manufacturing.