Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on the 16th that the Chinese government attaches importance to strengthening China Africa agricultural cooperation and actively promotes agricultural products imported from Africa. We will support and facilitate the entry of more African high-quality agricultural and food products into the Chinese market and bring more tangible benefits to the Chinese and African people. At the regular press conference on the same day, a reporter asked: not long ago, Kenya's avocado was exported to China, and the response was enthusiastic. The African side expects more agricultural products to enter the Chinese market. What measures will China take in this regard? In addition, we also noted that at the eighth ministerial meeting of the China Africa Cooperation Forum, China announced the establishment of a "green channel" for African agricultural products to China. Could the Chinese side further introduce the relevant situation? Wang Wenbin said that the Chinese government attaches importance to strengthening agricultural cooperation between China and Africa and actively promotes the import of agricultural products from Africa. Since the Beijing summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation of the Forum on China Africa cooperation in 2018, 25 kinds of agricultural and food products from 14 African countries including Kenya, South Africa, Benin and Egypt have completed the access to China. China is the second largest destination of African agricultural products exports. In recent years, the average annual growth rate of African agricultural products exports to China has reached 11.4%. In 2021, Africa's agricultural exports to China increased by 18.2% year on year. Wang Wenbin said that at the eighth ministerial meeting of the China Africa Cooperation Forum held in November last year, China announced the establishment of a "green channel" for African agricultural products to China. The General Administration of Customs of China has actively implemented and formulated practical access facilitation measures. First, it gives priority to agricultural product access applications submitted by African countries. After receiving relevant technical materials, it immediately starts risk analysis to accelerate the promotion of quarantine access; Second, for some agricultural products from the same country with similar processing technology, or the same agricultural product from different countries, under the premise of controllable risk, the risk assessment shall be carried out to speed up the access process; Third, it is necessary to facilitate the registration of enterprises in African countries that have obtained access to agricultural products, adopt flexible methods such as video inspection or document review, and speed up the evaluation and registration. "It is understood that the competent authorities of China will also hold a China Africa health and phytosanitary cooperation forum to support and facilitate more African high-quality and characteristic agricultural and food products to enter the Chinese market." "We believe that with the joint efforts of both sides, China Africa agricultural and food trade will surely flourish and bring more tangible benefits to the Chinese and African people." Wang Wenbin said. (news agency)