China-Africa Friendship Leadership Group
The China-Africa Friendship Group (全國政協中非友善小組) was established in Beijing on June 19, 2019, as a specialized working group within China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). At the first sessions, former CPPCC Vice Chairman Wang Zhengwei (王正偉) stated that establishing the group was a “concrete action” to implement Xi Jinping’s foreign policy thinking and advance outcomes from the China-Africa Cooperation Forum Beijing Summit. The group aims to “strengthen coordination and in-depth research” to ensure institutional mechanisms and demonstrate the CPPCC’s mission in the new era. Former CPPCC Deputy Chairman and Secretary-General Xia Baolong (夏寶龍) emphasized leveraging the CPPCC’s advantages in talent concentration, intellectual resources, and extensive connections to expand China-Africa friendship exchanges and build a “tighter China-Africa community of shared destiny.”