CGTN: China, Tanzania upgrade ties to comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership

BEIJING, Nov. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- China and Tanzania have enjoyed a long-lasting friendship and comprehensive cooperation, and the development of the relations is being promoted at a higher level with Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan's arrival in Beijing for a three-day visit. The two countries on Thursday announced the elevation of bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting with Hassan, the first African head of state China received after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. A 'true and reliable' China-Tanzania friendship Noting that the two countries should take the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership as a guide to advance cooperation in various fields in the next stage, Xi said China will continue to import more Tanzanian products, support Chinese companies in investing and doing business in Tanzania and provide assistance for Tanzania's economic and social development. He said China has always viewed its relations with Tanzania from a strategic perspective and has always been a reliable friend.