In order to implement the spirit of the 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, in accordance with the relevant arrangements of the "Cooperation Plan between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the African Union on Jointly Promoting the Construction of the Belt and Road", on December 13, 2021, He Lifeng, Director of the National Development and Reform Commission Together with the Chairman of the African Union Commission Faki to attend the first meeting of the coordination mechanism for the cooperation of the China-African Union to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative and deliver a speech.

Relevant Chinese departments and the African Union Commission conducted exchanges on cooperation in areas such as anti-epidemic, food, energy, production capacity investment, infrastructure, quality standards, and statistics, and further deepened their consensus. The meeting signed the "Memorandum of Understanding between the National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China and the African Union Commission on the establishment of a coordination mechanism for co-construction of the Belt and Road Initiative." Keywords: One Belt One Road, One Belt One Road News, One Belt One Road Project

Ning Jizhe, Deputy Director of China's National Development and Reform Commission, Ren Hongbin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, Assistant Minister Wu Jianghao of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and comrades from relevant departments and missions to the African Union attended the meeting. Relevant representatives of the African Union Commission attended the meeting.Editor/XuNing