Chinese president: to maintain steady, relatively fast economic growth China´s primary task

"China has achieved sustained and rapid economic growth, marked progress in social development programs and moderate prosperity for its people as a whole," Hu said.

Noting China is a big developing country with a population of 1.3 billion, the Chinese president said what China had achieved in the reform and opening up endeavor was in itself a significant contribution to world peace and development.

However, Hu said a huge population, weak economic foundation and uneven development remained the basic features of China.

"The problems and difficulties that we encounter in the course of development are rarely seen elsewhere in terms of their scale and complexity," said the Chinese leader.

"To build a well-off society in an all-round way and at a higher level that benefits the over 1 billion population, to basically achieve modernization of the country and to ensure common prosperity for all the Chinese people, we still have a very long way to go and we still need to make persistent and unyielding efforts," he said.

Tanzania is the fourth leg of Hu's week-long tour, which has taken him to Saudi Arabia, Mali and Senegal. He will later visit Mauritius before returning home on Tuesday.

This is Hu's sixth visit to Africa and his second since the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2006 where he announced eight measures designed to forge a new type of strategic partnership with Africa.

Editor:Liu Anqi