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Cape Town - China wants to strengthen its friendship with South Africa
and the whole of the continent, China's top legislator Wu Bangguo told
President
Jacob Zuma at the start of talks in Cape Town on Wednesday.
"The
friendship between China and South Africa and Africa as a whole is
indeed on a very solid foundation," Wu said after greeting Zuma at
Tuynhuys.
"We are both very enthusiastic about growing our
bilateral relationship ... It is one of the most dynamic bilateral
relationships for both sides."
Wu said Beijing believed that
under Zuma's leadership "South Africa will make even greater progress"
and congratulated him on the ANC's performance in last week's local
government elections.
Wu, the chairperson of China's National
People's Congress, met with Zuma after addressing parliament. He is on a
four-day visit to South Africa at the invitation of his local
counterpart, speaker
Max Sisulu.
After three days in Cape Town,
he was due to travel to Johannesburg to meet with local business leaders
before a dinner with senior officials from the department of trade and
industry.
China became South Africa's single largest trading
partner in 2008 and the government hopes that the further strengthening
of ties with the Asian manufacturing giant will help boost South
Africa's economic growth.
Zuma visited China with a delegation of
13 ministers last year and sought to encourage Beijing to invest in
infrastructure in South Africa.