As the Communist Party of China (CPC) is celebrating the 100th anniversary of her founding this year, the Chinese Embassy co-hosted an online symposium themed The Great Achievements of the Communist Party of China in the Past 100 Years with the Sierra Leone People’s Party(SLPP) on June 22, 2021.
H.E. Chinese Ambassador Hu Zhangliang, Hon. National Secretary General of SLPP and Deputy Minister of Justice Mr. Umaru Napoleon Koroma, Hon. Acting Minister of MFAIC Mme. Mamadi Gobeh Kamara, high-ranking members of SLPP, representatives of China-Sierra Leone friendship associations as well as friends from media joined in the online symposium. Two Chinese scholars, Prof. Xie and Dr. Li respectively shared experience of the CPC in targeted poverty alleviation and party construction and development, which was warmly welcomed.
In his speech, Ambassador Hu expounded that always staying true to its original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is why the CPC has been able to lead China from standing up, getting rich to becoming powerful in the past 100 years, grow from a party with only 50 plus members to the largest political party in the world with more than 91 million members today, and enjoy over 90% of approval among the Chinese people, ranking the first in the world for many years. He said that as this year also marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Sierra Leone, China stands ready to further strengthen cooperation with Sierra Leone in all fields and steadily push the relations between the two parties and two countries to new heights.
Hon. Secretary General Umaru Koroma and Hon. Acting Minister Mamadi Kamara congratulated the CPC on its 100th anniversary of founding on behalf of the ruling party SLPP and the Sierra Leonean government. They thanked the Chinese government under the leadership of the CPC for all the support to Sierra Leone in areas including socio-economic development, human capital development and health etc. They envisaged an ever-deepening China-Sierra Leone friendship and a closer China-Sierra Leone community with a shared future in the next half a century.
The other attendees offered their felicitations to the Chinese people and the CPC on the auspicious occasion and contributed to the symposium by giving their observations in poverty alleviation and promoting China-Sierra Leone practical cooperation.