The deepening economic cooperation between China and Africa is beneficial to both By EHIZUELEN MICHAEL MITCHELL OMORUYI  WANG XIAOYING/CHINA DAILY It is a fact that China’s economic interests in Africa have been summed up in two words for much of the past two decades: investment and trade. In 2024, trade …

Published: March 31,2025 This photo, taken on March 26, 2025, shows the launch ceremony of a nature observation program at the China-Africa Ecological Civilization Exchange forum held in Nairobi, Kenya. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen) A dialogue on China-Africa green cooperation was held in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, bringing together senior officials, diplomats, environmentalists …

Published: March 31,2025 China’s successful experience and technological advancements serve as an instructive model for driving Africa’s agricultural modernization ambitions through robust industrialization, energy development, and human capital enhancement, a United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) official has said.Dejene Tezera, director of the Agribusiness and Infrastructure Development Division at UNIDO, told …

Published: March 30,2024 Workers at the third-phase road project of Namibia’s capital international airport. CHEN CHENG/XINHUA In the context of Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems theory — which claims that rich core capitalist societies succeed by exploiting poorer peripheral ones — Africa has long occupied the periphery of the global economic system. For centuries, …

China on Thursday offered Kenya a grant of 1.8 billion Kenyan shillings (about 13.9 million U.S. dollars) to upgrade several hospitals in rural areas.Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning John Mbadi signed the funding agreement with Chinese Ambassador to Kenya GuoHaiyan, saying that the grant will improve the country’s …

Published: March 29,2025 United Nations Resident Coordinator in China SiddharthChatterjee (left), Munir Akram (center), Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, and Volkan Bozkir, president of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, talk on Wednesday before a high-level dialogue at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Boao, Hainan province. FENG YONGBIN / CHINA DAILY Multilateralism should be …

Published: March 29,2025 Fabrice Mba (R, front) instructs a young man in martial arts movements in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, on Feb. 15, 2025. (Xinhua/Kepseu) Fabrice Mba’s passion for Chinese culture in general and martial arts in particular budded in Cameroon’s southern town of Sangmelima, where he grew up watching kung fu movies. His elder brother was a …

By Staff writer  China has emerged as one of the most influential players on the international stage. The country’s foreign policy is multifaceted and deeply rooted in a strategy of cooperation with all nations, regardless of their political systems, economic models, or historical backgrounds. This strategic approach has allowed China …

Published: March 28,2025 The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 opened on Thursday in Boao, south China’s Hainan Province. Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attended the opening ceremony. Founded in 2001, the BFA is a …

China has provided a viable alternative to the West’s path of modernization and development for African countries By CHARLES ONUNAJU  LI MIN/CHINA DAILY Multipolarity as the emerging structure of contemporary international relation is shaped by the objective historical course from which emerging economies and countries in the Global South are …