Sponsored by Ministry of Commerce of the People''''s Republic of China, "Seminar for Leadership of the Friendship-with-China Organizations of French-Speaking African Countries" was held successfully from May 4 to 17, 2012. There were totally 25 participants for the seminar. They participated in different activities like classroom study, sightseeing and the "FOCAC-4th Seminar on China-Africa NGOs". They also paid a study tour to Sichuan Province. Programs in Sichuan included visits to Leshan Hi-tech Development Zone, Zigong Jiuda Salt Company, and the re-construction site of Yingxiu Town after the Wenchuan Earthquake; and study tours to a new socialist countryside, a base of Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Sichuan Chuanlong Tractor Plant.
