On October 20, 2021, the Tenth Meeting of China-Africa Think Tanks Forum kicked off in Hangzhou. Assistant Foreign Minister Deng Li delivered a video speech. African officials such as Minister of Culture and Communication of Senegal Abdoulaye Diop, and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Nigeria Zubairu Dada, African envoys to China, and over 200 Chinese and African experts, scholars, and media personnel attended the meeting either online or offline.

  Deng Li said, China and Africa are a community with a shared future and take the lead in advancing the building of the community with a shared future for mankind. In the new era, China and Africa are partners for cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative. At the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), President Xi Jinping proposed to build a China-Africa community with a shared future that features "joint responsibility, win-win cooperation, happiness for all, common cultural prosperity, common security, and harmony between man and nature", which highly summarizes the distinctive feature of China-Africa traditional friendship, the features of China-Africa friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation in the new era, and elevates China-Africa relations to a new height.

  Deng Li pointed out, under the current circumstances, China and African countries need solidarity and cooperation more than ever. The Eighth FOCAC Ministerial Conference will be held in the African co-chair Senegal this year. China and Africa will consolidate consensus, strengthen cooperation, focus on major fields such as health, investment, trade, industrialization, agricultural modernization, climate change response, and digital economy, promote the transformation and upgrading of China-Africa cooperation, and blaze a sustainable path, facilitating the economic development of Africa, China and the world in the post-pandemic period.

  Deng Li encourages experts and scholars present to fully leverage their strengths and offer insights and wisdom support based on actual needs of the development of China-Africa relations. They should strengthen the overall and prospective study on China-Africa relations, think creatively, deeply study practical issues in a down-to-earth manner, tap new highlights and new growth drivers in China-Africa cooperation, and offer more policy suggestions. In addition, they should share the stories of China-Africa friendship with the people of Africa, China, and the world, and enhance understanding and recognition between China and Africa.

  The China-Africa Think Tanks Forum, an important thematic forum of the FOCAC, has been held for nine times since its inception in 2011. Themed with "Strengthening Solidarity and Cooperation, Enhancing Innovation and Development to Build Together a China-Africa Community with a Shared Future", the meeting was hosted by the Secretariat of the Chinese Follow-Up Committee of FOCAC and jointly organized by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, Zhejiang Normal University, and Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal.