YAOUNDE, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu has agreed with Cameroon's President Paul Biya during a meeting here on Thursday that the two countries should expand cooperation and further promote bilateral relations.
During their meeting, Hui said since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Cameroon 40 years ago, the two countries have treated each other equally, friendly and with mutual trust. Both countries showed firm support regarding each other's core interests.
In recent years, China and Cameroon have accelerated cooperation in such realms as trade and commerce, cultural and educational exchanges, bringing real benefits for the two peoples and providing new impetus for the development of bilateral relations, Hui said.
The vice premier noted that the China-Cameroon friendly cooperation are embracing new opportunities and the potential will be huge for the two countries in expanding friendly cooperation.
He said China is willing to join hands with Cameroon in increasing friendly exchanges, improving political mutual trust, expanding bilateral cooperation and promoting the friendly and cooperative ties to a new height.
For his part, President Biya said in the past 40 years, Cameroon and China have carried out a series of cooperation in areas like agriculture and infrastructure construction on the basis of mutual benefit, and such cooperation has made great achievements.
As Cameroon is making her new development strategies, the president expressed hope that China can further step up cooperation with and support for Cameroon, and become a strategic partner with Cameroon.
The two sides also exchanged views on China-Africa cooperation. Hui said in the past decade, within the framework of the China- Africa Cooperation Forum, China and Africa have enhanced political mutual trust, stepped up support for each other, deepened bilateral cooperation and exchanges as well as further developed their new type of strategic partnership.
President Biya noted that as cooperation continuously strengthens with China in the past years, Africa's position in the international arena has been improved, and investments to African countries have also been boosted.
Biya said that African countries in general are optimistic about the future of Africa-China cooperation.