President Xi Jinping is on a trip to the Middle East and Africa till July 28. He is visiting Senegal, Rwanda, South Africa and Mauritius, and attending the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

This is the ninth time President Xi has visited Africa, and his fourth visit to Africa as Chinese president.

China is the world's biggest developing country and Africa is the continent with the most developing countries in the world. In his visit to Tanzania in 2013, President Xi pointed out that China and Africa can build a community with a shared future. The Sino-African relationship has made great progress over the past five years, and the concept of a community with shared future has become a consensus between China and Africa.

At the Johannesburg Summit of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum in December 2015, President Xi advanced 10 Sino-African cooperation projects in a bid to help the continent break such development bottlenecks as poor infrastructure, talent and capital shortage, quicken the process of industrialization and agricultural modernization and achieve independent and sustainable development.

Over the past three years China and Africa have engaged in close cooperation in various aspects, which has promoted Africa's industrial upgrading, created more employment opportunities and improved local people's livelihoods.

It is expected President Xi's visit to Africa this time will further deepen the Sino-African relationship and accelerate the construction of a China-Africa community with a shared future.