A delegation led by Deputy Minister for Health of the Republic of Mozambique, João Leopoldo da Costa, visited on December 6 the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), also known as Forum Macao. The group met with Deputy Secretaries-General Ding Tian and Casimiro de Jesus Pinto. The Representative of Mozambique at Forum Macao, Francisca Reino, also took part in the meeting.

The Mozambican delegation was accompanied by the acting Consul-General of Mozambique in Macao, Francisco Domingos Manhiça, and the Director of the Centre for Exchanges and International Cooperation of the Guangdong–Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park Development Co Ltd, Ms Sun Jixia.

Mr Ding welcomed the Mozambican delegation to Forum Macao. He noted that a delegation from Forum Macao had visited Mozambique earlier this year, and had met respectively with the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and the Minister of Industry and Commerce.

During the December 6 meeting with Mr Costa, the parties discussed: the development of Forum Macao over the past 15 years since its establishment; a third-party evaluation of Forum Macao’s achievements since its creation; and developments related with the upcoming 6th Ministerial Conference of Forum Macao.

Mr Ding thanked Mozambique for supporting the activities of Forum Macao. He noted that the Training Centre of Forum Macao each year held courses on traditional medicine, and he invited Mozambique to send relevant technicians to take part in the programmes, in order to promote exchanges in this field.

Mr Costa said one of the goals of his visit to Macao was to strengthen cooperation with the Guangdong–Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park. He expressed wishes to promote further exchanges between China and Mozambique in the field of traditional medicine, and to strengthen existing cooperation mechanisms, namely by making use of Forum Macao and Macao’s role as a cooperation platform. He stated that China, Macao and Mozambique had already developed a strong base for cooperation and would further deepen exchanges through human resource training in traditional medicine.