Chinese President Hu Jintao returned to Beijing on Sunday after wrapping up his visits to eight African nations.

The visits, which began on Jan. 30, took Hu to Cameroon, Liberia, Sudan, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique and Seychelles.

It was Hu's first African trip since Beijing hosted a summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) last November, the largest meeting between the two sides since the 1950s.

(Xinhua News Agency February 11, 2007)