From January 22 to 24, 2024 local time, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council Liu Guozhong, upon invitation, led a Chinese government delegation to visit Tanzania. During the visit, President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa respectively met Liu Guozhong. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on bilateral relations and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries in various fields.

Liu Guozhong conveyed cordial greetings from President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang to President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa respectively and spoke highly of Tanzania's social and economic development achievements. Liu Guozhong said that since November 2022, President Xi Jinping and President Samia Suluhu Hassan have met twice to jointly draw a blueprint for the development of bilateral relations. China is willing to take the opportunity of celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries to consolidate traditional friendship, strengthen political mutual trust, deepen exchanges and cooperation, and promote the building of a China-Tanzania community with a shared future and a China-Africa community with a shared future, under the guidance of the strategic common understandings reached between the two heads of state.

Samia Suluhu Hassan and Kassim Majaliwa respectively asked Liu Guozhong to convey sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Samia Suluhu Hassan said, the close high-level exchanges between Tanzania and China have injected strong impetus into bilateral friendly cooperation. Tanzania has always firmly adhered to the one-China principle, regarding Taiwan as an inalienable part of China's territory and supporting China's cause of reunification. Tanzania is willing to strengthen strategic alignment with China and enhance inter-party exchanges and bilateral pragmatic cooperation. Kassim Majaliwa said that since the establishment of diplomatic relations 60 years ago, Tanzania-China cooperation has become increasingly close, and bilateral friendship is as firm as a rock. Tanzania is ready to work with China to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in infrastructure, agriculture, medical care, tourism, blue economy, and other fields, to push for more new achievements in the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Tanzania and China.

During the visit, Liu Guozhong paid tribute to the Chinese Experts Cemetery and inspected the Dar es Salaam Station of Tanzania-Zambia Railway and Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute.