The 2024 China-Africa Private Economic Cooperation Forum was held in Shenzhen on 7 September, with more than 250 guests from home and abroad focusing on the theme of ‘deepening China-Africa practical cooperation and boosting Africa's industrialization and development’, discussing cooperation and the future together. During the same period, the Forum also held a cross-border matchmaking meeting for private enterprises in China and Africa, in which more than 80 Chinese and African enterprises carried out two rounds of ‘one-on-one’ precise negotiation, and reached 16 co-operation intentions, with an intended amount of more than RMB 3.5 billion, which was a fruitful matchmaking result.