Deng Boqing, vice-chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), met with Mirghani Mohamed Salih, ambassador of Sudan to China, on March 17, 2023.
Deng extended his welcome to the ambassador for the visit, saying that China and Sudan enjoy a long-term friendship and are seeing the steady development of their strategic partnership. China has always attached great importance to the bilateral ties and its pragmatic cooperation with Sudan. As the agency responsible for China's international development cooperation affairs, the CIDCA is ready to work alongside Sudan to implement the important consensuses reached by the heads of state of the two countries, promote the early implementation of the eight major joint actions from the China-Arab State Summit and the nine projects from the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, he said.
Salih extended his appreciation for the meeting and highly applauded the extensive and fruitful cooperation between the two countries. He pledged to work closely with China to achieve substantial progress in related cooperative projects.
The two sides also exchanged views on the progress of related projects. Zheng Yuandong, deputy director-general of the CIDCA's First Department of Regional Affairs, and Cai Fang, deputy director-general of the CIDCA's Department of International Cooperation, also attended the meeting.