China, Africa join for broader agricultural cooperation

African learners visit a cassava field in Yanfeng Town, Haikou City of south China's Hainan Province, September 9, 2019. (Xinhua, Guo Cheng)

China has been committed to joining hands with African countries to achieve food security and agricultural modernization, participants of an international forum said Tuesday.

Amid robust growth in agricultural trade, they hailed the broad prospects for China-Africa agricultural cooperation in the new era at the 1st Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Agriculture, which concluded Tuesday in the city of Sanya, south China's Hainan Province.