Spotlight: Xi charts course for upgrading China-Africa ties at landmark summit

Members of China's Tianjin Performing Art Troupe take part in a parade with local children in Grahamstown, South Africa, July 9, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]

Tlohang Sekhamane, foreign minister of Lesotho, noted that Xi's speech covers almost all fields of China-Africa cooperation.

"From infrastructure building to offering technical training, from poverty reduction to cooperation in the security sector, the measures announced by Xi are badly needed by African countries," said Sekhamane.

"It is clear that China wants to be a partner looking for cooperation with Africa and it seeks opportunities of real win-win cooperation instead of looking for a situation of dominance," added the minister.

Adji Ayassor, minister of state in the Togolese Ministry of Economy, Finance and Development Planning, told Xinhua that the Chinese president's speech told "the truth about the cooperation between China and Africa."

Contrary to what some claim in the West, China "is not colonizing Africa," he said. "We believe that is the best way to develop Africa. ... It (China) is taking a real path of Africa's development. It is a real cooperation."