On September 8, 2016, when attending the 2nd Investing in Africa Forum in Guangzhou, Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Ming met with President Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon of Benin, who was in China to attend the forum upon invitation. Both sides exchanged in-depth views on China-Benin relations, investment cooperation between the two countries, implementation of results of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and other topics of common interest.