China and the group of four major African cotton producing African countries (C4) of Benin, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso, issued a Joint Press Communiqué on Cooperation in Cotton Industry under the WTO Framework on Dec. 14 in Geneva.

China and the C4 countries decided to cooperate in cotton industry. Major forms of cooperation are bilateral cooperation in cotton projects, supply of good strains of cotton, agricultural machines and fertilizers, demonstration and promotion of cotton cultivation technology, carrying out management and technical personnel training multilaterally and bilaterally, and supporting the technological upgrading and transformation as well as industrial chain expansion of bilateral business cooperation projects.

Source: MOFCOM