Mr. Wang Chao, Assistant Minister of Commerce met with the visiting UN Secretary-General's Special Advisor Professor Jeffrey Sachs in Beijing on Mar.9th. Both sides exchanged views and opinions in the fields of African economic development, China's aid to Africa, Sino-Africa Cooperation Forum as well as the pattern in which China and UN may cooperate on aiding Africa. Mr. Zhao Zhongyi, CICETE Deputy Director General attended the meeting, accompanied by programme officers from Programming and Planning Division