Dia mengatakan, hampir selama seabad kekuatan Barat melakukan eksploitasi asing di China dan secara tetap membuat takut Beijing, sehingga kemudian China menentang segala bentuk 'kolonialisme' atau 'perbudakan.'
China and Africa have extensive common ground and a fine tradition of cooperation on major international issues. It serves our shared interest to strengthen coordination in international affairs, he said.