On April 28, 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks with his Kenyan counterpart Mwai Kibaki in Nairobi. Both sides expressed willingness to jointly commit to developing bilateral friendly cooperative relations of long-term stability and mutual benefits and continue to deepen friendly cooperation in all areas.

Hu indicated that bilateral relations have been developing smoothly with the traditional friendship continuously deepened and friendly cooperation in all areas increasingly expanded. Bilateral economic and trade relations have scored new progress and both sides have made rapid headway in cooperation in the areas of electric power, communications, investment and project contract, achieved new results in humanities exchanges and maintained close consultations and cooperation in international affairs. China is satisfied with expanded bilateral relations.

Hu pointed out that China attaches great importance to bilateral relations and deems Kenya its important cooperative partner in Africa. In order to deepen bilateral friendly cooperation in various areas, he put forward a four-point proposal. First, to maintain high-level exchanges, strengthen personnel contact, exchange views on subjects related to governing the country, developing economy and improving people's livelihood, as well as international and regional issues of common interest and continue enhancing coordination and cooperation in the United Nations and other international multilateral occasions. Second, to actively implement already-signed bilateral cooperation agreements. China encourages its businesses to import Kenyan goods, expand investment in Kenya, participate in its infrastructure construction and energy & resources exploitation and expand cooperation with Kenya in processing industries and agriculture. China will continue offering economic aid within its available resources and strengthen assistance for Kenya's human resources development. Third, to expand cooperation in the fields of culture, education, health, tourism, journalism, environmental protection and sport and further build up mutual understanding and friendship between both peoples. Fourth, to strengthen cooperation within the framework of China-Africa Cooperation Forum (CACF) and join hands in making the Beijing Summit & the Third Ministerial Meeting of the CACF to be held in this November a great success.

Kibaki said that over the past year, bilateral relations have witnessed sound progress. Chinese friends have contributed a lot to Kenya, for which his country is deeply thankful. He agreed with Hu's proposal on bilateral relations, indicating that Kenya expects to maintain traditional friendship with China, deepen pragmatic cooperation and jointly promote regional and world peace and development.

Hu appreciated Kenya's positive role in East African affairs. Kibaki thanked for this and hoped that China will continue supporting peace, stability and development in East Asia. Kibaki indicated that Kenya supports the CACF and would like to strengthen cooperation with China to push for steady development of this forum.

Following the talks, Hu and Kibaki attended the signing ceremony of the documents on bilateral cooperation in the areas of economy, trade, culture and education.

On the evening of the same day, Hu attended the welcoming banquet hosted by Kibaki.