A visiting African ruling parties delegation left Beijing on Thursday for a visit to Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the second leg of the delegation's 16-day study-and-investigation tour in China.

During their stay in Beijing, the delegation attended a three- day seminar on further cementing inter-party and nation-to-nation relations between China and African countries, and met with leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The African party officials also toured the famous Great Wall in northwest Beijing, and the Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, in downtown Beijing.

The delegation is scheduled to visit state-owned enterprises and some agricultural and border trade projects in Harbin. They will then go to Qingdao, a coastal city in east China's Shandong Province.

About 20 ruling party officials from Cameroon, Djibouti, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Niger, Rwanda, Seychelles and Togo started their China tour last Friday as guests of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee.

Source: Xinhua