{"id":52186,"date":"2021-10-22T16:20:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari"},"modified":"2021-10-22T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:54:41","slug":"chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s President, Xi Jinping writes Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Chinese President, Xi Jinping, says his country will use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Nigeria to promote the strategic partnership to new heights.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi said this in a letter he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese leader appreciated Buhari\u2019s congratulatory letter on the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, which came up on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement by Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018Nigeria is an important strategic partner of China in Africa. China-Nigeria cooperation has been the pacesetter of China-Africa cooperation,\u2019\u2019 President Xi said.<\/p>\n<p>President Xi said he attached great importance to the development of China-Nigeria relations, and assured President Buhari that his country would spare no effort in strengthening existing relations.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that Buhari had sent a goodwill message to President Xi Jinping on the 72nd anniversary of the People\u2019s Republic of China on October 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The President lauded the 50 years of robust diplomatic relationship between Nigeria and China, noting that it has yielded benefits for both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari stated that he looks forward to the upliftment of the bilateral ties between the two nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Chinese President, Xi Jinping, says his country will use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Nigeria to promote the strategic partnership to new heights. President Xi said this in a letter he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari. The Chinese leader appreciated Buhari\u2019s congratulatory letter on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,519,254,5739],"class_list":["post-52186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-china","tag-nigeria","tag-xi-jinping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>China\u2019s President, Xi Jinping writes Buhari - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chinese President, Xi Jinping, says his country will use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of di ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China\u2019s President, Xi Jinping writes Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chinese President, Xi Jinping, says his country will use the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of di ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-22T15:20:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-10-22T15:54:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/img-6172de9e75fec.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"China\u2019s President, Xi Jinping writes Buhari\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-22T15:20:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-10-22T15:54:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari\"},\"wordCount\":217,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/img-6172de9e75fec.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"china\",\"Nigeria\",\"Xi Jinping\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/chinas-president-xi-jinping-writes-buhari\",\"name\":\"China\u2019s President, Xi Jinping writes Buhari - 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