China is the world's largest developing country. Consolidating
and developing cooperation with other developing countries is a
cornerstone of China’s foreign policy. In 2005, China continued to
strengthen cooperation with other developing countries, attach
great importance to the fundamental role of such cooperative
relations, and to construct a new type of partnership featuring
long-term stability, equality, mutual benefit and all-round
cooperation. At the same time, China also continued to strengthen
collective dialogue and cooperation with developing countries. It
kept on pushing forward its cooperation with African and Arab
countries within the frameworks of the China-Africa Cooperation
Forum and the China-Arab Cooperation Forum and deepening its ties
with Latin-American organizations.
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In 2005, Chinese leaders paid visits to over 40 Asian, African
and Arab countries, and established strategic partnerships with
some. At the UN Summit in September, President Hu Jintao, on behalf
of the Chinese government, announced five measures for helping
other developing countries, especially African nations, towards
faster development. Following the Indian Ocean tsunami and South
Asian earthquake, the Chinese government and Chinese people
implemented their biggest overseas assistance to date,
demonstrating the Chinese people's firm faith in and solidarity
with the victims of the disasters.?
There were many visits by heads of state and government leaders
during the course of the year, representing Mauritius, Malaysia,
Colombia, Guyana, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Cambodia and
Namibia.