On September 2nd, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun presided over a regular press conference. A reporter asked, according to reports, the Prime Minister of Djibouti recently awarded the "Independence Day National Medal" to all members of the Chinese medical team assisting Djibouti. Not long ago, the President of Zanzibar, Tanzania, also awarded honors to the Chinese aid medical team in Zanzibar. What is the spokesperson's comment on this?
Guo Jiakun congratulated the Chinese medical aid team to Africa on receiving another honor.
Since 1963, the Chinese medical team has traveled to more than 40 African countries, treating nearly 300 million patients and providing various forms of "teaching people how to fish" through clinical teaching, leaving behind a "Chinese medical team that will not leave". The medical team members who aid Africa and local medical personnel work together on the front line, demonstrating the spirit of the Chinese medical team, which is fearless of hardship, willing to dedicate themselves, saving lives and helping the wounded, and loving without boundaries, through practical actions and even precious lives. They have won the reputation of the African people and established a monument of China Africa friendship.
Both China and Africa belong to the global South, and are good partners who share the same aspirations and development path. China is willing to work with Africa to promote the deepening of China Africa health cooperation and friendship, and jointly build a new era all-weather China Africa community with a shared future.
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