On April 26, 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao left Casablanca for Nigeria for a visit after successfully concluding his state visit to Morocco.

During his visit to Morocco, Hu held talks with King Mohammed VI and met with Moroccan parliament leaders. Both sides exchanged views on further developing bilateral friendly cooperative relations.

Related departments of the two countries also signed a range of agreements on cooperation in the areas of economy & trade, culture, medical care and health.

Hu arrived in Morocco's largest port city Casablanca for a visit from the capital city Rabat on the afternoon of April 25. In Casablanca, Hu met with representatives from the Chinese medical team to assist Morocco.

Both countries and their people enjoy a time-honored history of exchanges and Morocco is the second African country to establish diplomatic ties with the New China. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties 48 years ago, bilateral relations have been developing smoothly with frequent friendly exchanges at various levels and remarkable cooperation in all areas. In recent years, bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation in the economic and trade area has developed rapidly and last year the bilateral trade volume was near 1.5 billion US dollars, an increase of 28% over the same period of the previous year. Both sides have maintained sound communication and coordination in international affairs, as well as in China-Africa and Sino-Arab Forums.

Morocco is the third leg of Hu's current tour. Prior to that, he has already visited the United States and Saudi Arabia. After his visit to Nigeria, he will also pay a visit to Kenya.