BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao has hailed China-Africa ties in a recent message to congratulate the re-launch of the ChinAfrica, a Beijing-based monthly magazine.

"The Chinese people cherish the traditional friendship with the African people and always see them as all-weather friends who can be fully trusted and counted on," he said.

"The Chinese people will forever be good brothers and good partners of the African people," he said.

Hu said he hopes that the ChinAfrica will contribute to the enhancement of the traditional friendship, exchanges, unity, coordination and common development between China and Africa and to the promotion of the new type of strategic partnership between the two sides.

The ChinAfrica was first publication in 1988 with both English and French editions. Its paper version was suspended in 2001. The new English monthly magazine was re-launched last month.

The very issue of the magazine was also made as a special one marking the fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to be held in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from Nov. 8 to 9.