NAIROBI (Halbeeeg News) – A high-level delegation led by President Uhuru Kenyatta left the country on Friday evening for Beijing to attend the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation which is scheduled to be held next week.
The plane carrying the Head of State and his delegation departed from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport shortly after 7 pm.
The leader of Majority in Parliament Aden Barre Duale, Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua and Chief of Defence Forces General Samson Mwathethe led senior government officials in seeing off the President.
The meeting will focus on trade, infrastructure, investments, education and technology which are common areas of interest for both Kenya and China.
During his stay in Beijing, the president will hold talks with Chinese leaders on several issues including security, trade, and investment.
Last year, Kenya and China signed a document to enhance their ties to ‘Strategic Partnership’, which in international parlance may mean relations between the two will now manifest beyond the existence of embassies to things like cultural interactions, student exchanges, joint research, favourable trade practices and even political exchanges.
FOCAC, and another programme called the Belt and Road Initiative, are part of President Xi Jinping’s policy of advancement commonly called the Xi Jinping Thought.
It is a set of 14 points, part of which is to “establish a common destiny between Chinese people and other people around the world with a peaceful international environment.”
Kenya is one of the four African countries that China has identified to pilot its industrial zones projects.
The others are Tanzania, Egypt, and Ethiopia.
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