Wang Wenbin: China supports more high -quality African agricultural products to enter the Chinese market

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"The Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" news, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 16, the CCTV reporter asked questions: Not long ago, the fresh avocado fruit in Kenya achieved enthusiastic response to China. African expects more agricultural products to enter the Chinese market. What measures will China take in this regard? In addition, we also noticed that at the eighth ministerial meeting of the China -Africa Cooperation Forum, China announced that it had established a "green channel" for the losses of African agricultural products. Can China further introduce the relevant situation?

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Wang Wenbin: The Chinese government attaches great importance to strengthening China -Africa agricultural cooperation and actively promotes imported agricultural products from Africa. Since the 2018 China -Africa Cooperation Forum Beijing Summit, 25 kinds of agricultural food products in 14 African countries including Kenya, South Africa, Benin, and Egypt have completed their access to China. China is the second largest destination country of African agricultural exports. In recent years, the average annual growth rate of African agricultural products exports to China has reached 11.4%. In 2021, Africa's exports to China ’s agricultural products increased by 18.2%year -on -year.

At the eighth ministerial meeting of the China -Africa Cooperation Forum held in November last year, China announced the establishment of a "green channel" for the losses of African agricultural products. The China Customs General Administration has actively implemented and formulated practical and feasible access convenience measures: First, the application for agricultural product access proposed by African countries is given priority. After receiving the relevant technical information, the risk analysis is immediately launched to accelerate the promotion of quarantine access access. Work; second, for some agricultural products from the same country and processing technology, or the same agricultural product from different countries, under the premise of controllable risks, the risk assessment is merged to speed up the access process; the third is that the African countries have already been in African countries. The agricultural product manufacturers who have been allowed to lose China are facilitated registration, and flexible methods such as video inspection or document review are used to speed up evaluation and registration. It is understood that the Chinese competent department will also host China -Africa and Botanical (SPS) cooperation forums to support and facilitate more African high -quality farm food products to enter the Chinese market.

We believe that with the joint efforts of both parties, the trade of Chinese and African agricultural food products will definitely develop and develop more benefits to the people of China and Africa.

Foreign Ministry spokesman's office

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