diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 24c5a9d712..b72cbe7c93 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-cargo = "Randy MacLeod <Randy.MacLeod@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-cargo-c = "Deepesh Varatharajan <Deepesh.Varatharajan@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-ccache = "Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-cdrtools-native = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-cgo-helloworld = "Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-chrpath = "Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-clang = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER:pn-clang-cross-${TARGET_ARCH} = "Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>"
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/go.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/go.py
index 0c9c4ff4cd..6e7a9bcd94 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/go.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/runtime/cases/go.py
@@ -85,3 +85,15 @@ class GoHelloworldTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
 
         msg = 'Incorrect output: %s' % output
         self.assertEqual(output, "Hello, world!", msg=msg)
+
+class CgoHelloworldTest(OERuntimeTestCase):
+    @OETestDepends(['ssh.SSHTest.test_ssh'])
+    @OEHasPackage(['cgo-helloworld'])
+    def test_cgohelloworld(self):
+        cmd = "cgo-helloworld"
+        status, output = self.target.run(cmd)
+        msg = 'Exit status was not 0. Output: %s' % output
+        self.assertEqual(status, 0, msg=msg)
+
+        msg = 'Incorrect output: %s' % output
+        self.assertEqual(output, "Hello, world!", msg=msg)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb
index 25561f6878..d6bed8d32c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-core-tools-testapps.bb
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ KEXECTOOLS:loongarch64 ?= ""
 # go does not support ppc32, only ppc64
 # https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22885
 # gccgo may do better
-GOTOOLS ?= "go-helloworld"
+GOTOOLS ?= "\
+    go-helloworld \
+    cgo-helloworld \
+    "
 GOTOOLS:powerpc ?= ""
 GOTOOLS:riscv32 ?= ""
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/cgo-helloworld/cgo-helloworld.go b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/cgo-helloworld/cgo-helloworld.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0c1f9d4c96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/cgo-helloworld/cgo-helloworld.go
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+package main
+
+// #include <stdio.h>
+// void hello() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); fflush(stdout);}
+import "C"
+
+func main() {
+	C.hello()
+}
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/cgo-helloworld_1.0.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/cgo-helloworld_1.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ca1e16c7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/go-examples/cgo-helloworld_1.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+SUMMARY = "A simple CGO example that calls C to print hello world"
+SECTION = "examples"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://golang.org/"
+
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
+
+SRC_URI = "file://cgo-helloworld.go"
+
+S = "${UNPACKDIR}"
+
+GO_IMPORT = "cgo-helloworld"
+GO_INSTALL = "${GO_IMPORT}"
+
+inherit go
+
+export GO111MODULE = "off"
+export CGO_ENABLED = "1"
+
+do_configure:prepend() {
+    mkdir -p ${S}/src/${GO_IMPORT}
+    cp ${UNPACKDIR}/cgo-helloworld.go ${S}/src/${GO_IMPORT}/main.go
+}