BEIJING, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- China has honored its 2015 promise to provide Africa with funding support totaling 60 billion U.S. dollars, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).

The financing has been either delivered or arranged, Xi said.

China decided to provide the funding support at the FOCAC Johannesburg summit to ensure the successful implementation of ten China-Africa cooperation plans adopted at the summit.