The official website of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit to be held in November in Beijing,is now in use.

Operated in Chinese, English and French, the website (www.focacsummit. org) will cover major events, speeches and documents from the upcoming FOCAC summit.

The website will offer background information about the FOCAC and its development, member countries, previous meetings and related documents.

The website is produced by Xinhuanet under the Xinhua News Agency.

More than 30 African heads of state or government will attend the FOCAC summit scheduled from Nov. 3 to 5.

The summit will be the highest-level, largest-scale meeting between China and African leaders since the founding of the People's Republic of China, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The summit, also the 3rd Ministerial Conference of the FOCAC, will focus on the subjects of "friendship, peace, cooperation and development".

FOCAC is a mechanism for collective dialogue and cooperation jointly established by China and Africa to cope with new challenges and facilitate common development.

Since the launch of the FOCAC in 2000, two ministerial conferences have been held in Beijing and Addis Ababa.