China is ready to work with South Africa to expand cultural cooperation, said a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday.

"China is ready to make concerted efforts with South Africa to expand cultural exchanges and cooperation," Liu Yunshan, a member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and a member of the CPC Central Committee Secretariat, said in a meeting with Koos Bekker, founder of the South Africa-based Naspers Group.

Liu, also head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, hailed the cultural exchanges between the two countries.

Naspers Group is a multinational media company with principal operations in electronic media and print media.