{"id":27273,"date":"2026-01-16T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/27273\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:23:06","slug":"opening-remarks-at-the-china-africa-energy-innovation-cooperation-accelerator-project-demo-day-by-h-e-amb-dr-alhaji-sarjoh-bah-au-permanent-representative-to-the-peoples-republic-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/27273\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Remarks at the China-Africa Energy Innovation Cooperation Accelerator Project Demo Day by H.E. Amb. Dr. Alhaji Sarjoh Bah, AU Permanent Representative to the People\u2019s Republic of China, Beijing, 16 January 2026-African Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"visibility:hidden;display:none;\" id=\"article-listen\"> Distinguished Deputy Director-General Yi Yuechun, Counselor Liuxiaoming, Vice Administrator Yao Jie, Dear Colleagues,Ladies and gentleman,<br \/>\nGood afternoon,<br \/>\nOn behalf of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission and the AU\u00a0Permanent Mission to China I would like to begin by extending my sincere greetings\u00a0to all the guests present today and wish you all a happy and prosperous 2026! I wouldalso like to commend the Government of the People\u2019s Republic of China, the National\u00a0Energy Administration (NEA), and China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute\u00a0(CREEI), for translating the outcomes of the Forum on China\u2013Africa Cooperation\u00a0(FOCAC) Summit into practical, implementation-oriented cooperation, particularly the\u00a0commitment to advance green industry and energy innovation.<br \/>\n In 2024, the outcome document of the FOCAC Summit explicitly stated that it would\u00a0support the China-Africa Energy Innovation Cooperation Accelerator Project by\u00a0promoting cooperation in green industries and assisting African countries in\u00a0optimizing energy structure and upgrading industrial structure. Today, we gather here to jointly hold the demo day activity, which not only represents our active\u00a0implementation of the strategic consensus reached by Chinese and African leaders\u00a0during the last FOCAC Summit but also demonstrates our firm action in continuously\u00a0promoting the pragmatic cooperation between China and Africa in the energy field.<br \/>\nChina and Africa have always been reliable partners in their pursuit of development\u00a0and revitalization. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of\u00a0diplomatic relations between China and Africa. In the blink of an eye, 70 years have\u00a0passed, and while much has changed, including the cycles of the seasons, what\u00a0remains unchanged is the consistent and unwavering friendship between China and\u00a0Africa.<\/p>\n<p>                    Listen to this article (Press F7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Distinguished Deputy Director-General Yi Yuechun, Counselor Liuxiaoming, Vice Administrator Yao Jie, Dear Colleagues,Ladies and gentleman, Good afternoon, On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[25],"tags":[16693,97,16680,16686,16685,2653,1865,16688,587,16683,235,7410,3237,16682,16681,7040,1144,65,16684,4846,13027,6033,16678,16691,16689,4962,16679,16690,16692,16687,461,4822],"class_list":["post-27273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-16693","tag-97","tag-accelerator","tag-alhaji","tag-amb","tag-at","tag-au","tag-bah","tag-beijing","tag-by","tag-china","tag-china-africa","tag-cooperation","tag-day","tag-demo","tag-dr","tag-energy","tag-ethiopia","tag-h-e","tag-innovation","tag-january","tag-of","tag-opening","tag-peoples","tag-permanent","tag-project","tag-remarks","tag-representative","tag-republic","tag-sarjoh","tag-the","tag-to"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}