Following are the six key areas that President Hu Jintao proposed for China and Africa to work together to cope with the economic difficulties.

-- Strengthen solidarity and mutual assistance to jointly meet the challenge of the international financial crisis;

-- Enhance mutual trust and cement the political foundation for traditional friendship;

-- Raise the level of practical economic cooperation and trade on the basis of reciprocity and mutual benefit;

-- Expand people-to-people exchanges and deepen cultural cooperation;

-- Work closely together and strengthen coordination in international affairs;

-- Enhance coordination and jointly promote the further development of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation