On September 23, 2020, the newly-appointed ambassador to South Africa Chen Xiaodong and his wife Zhang Bin arrived in South Africa to take up their new posts. Li Nan, representative of the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Minister Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in South Africa, went to the airport to greet them.
△Chen Xiaodong (picture from the Chinese Embassy in South Africa)
Chen Xiaodong served as the Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Iraq and Singapore, and served as the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs before serving as the sixth Chinese ambassador to South Africa.
Ambassador Chen said that China is currently working hard to overcome difficulties, take the lead in controlling the epidemic, taking the lead in realizing economic recovery, giving full play to its super-large-scale market advantages, tapping the potential of domestic demand, and building a new development pattern with domestic and international cycles as the main body and mutual promotion of domestic and international cycles.
China will open wider to the outside world, share more of China’s development dividends with South Africa and Africa, drive the common recovery and common development of Africa and the world through its own recovery and development, and continue to consolidate and deepen the comprehensive strategic cooperation between China and Africa.
The representative of the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs warmly welcomed Ambassador Chen and his wife to South Africa to take up their new posts, spoke highly of the comprehensive strategic partnership between South Africa and China, highly appreciated China’s strong support for South Africa’s fight against the epidemic, and expressed the South’s willingness to work with China to jointly promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between South Africa and China. Keep moving forward.
(Headquarters reporter Zhou Tao)