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Digital health tech helps China and Africa fight the COVID-19 pandemic

Digital technology has played a key role in China’s effective anti-pandemic work and Africa is following China’s lead, experts said Wednesday during an online conference to discuss how China’s digital technology can assist Africa’s COVID-19 fight. China actively encourages medical institutions and private companies to participate in establishing global anti-epidemic …

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Understanding the Development of Africa’s Manufacturing Sector

Underpinning the ‘Africa rising’ narrative, the once touted ‘dark continent’ is now emerging as the new frontier and hub of manufacturing. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, during the FOCAC summit in Beijing, China had already set the stage for Africa as a new frontier of manufacturing and industrialization. This was witnessed when …

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US officials told to stop stirring trouble in Asia

By MO JINGXI China urged some US politicians on Wednesday to stop hyping up the so-called “China threat” and undermining regional peace, stability and development. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin made the remark as United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper pushed an anti-China message …

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Chinese-owned rice farm skills farmers in rural Uganda to boost household incomes

As the world marks World Food Day on Friday, a Chinese-owned rice farm in the central Ugandan district of Kalungu is skilling farmers on how to farm the crop to increase their household incomes. The over 3,000-acre paddy rice farm, owned by Zhong’s Industries Ltd, a private Chinese enterprise is …

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Africa CDC Chief urges African countries to prepare for second wave of COVID-19 infections

John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), urged African countries to prepare for a second wave of COVID-19 infections. Speaking during a virtual press conference, he said the continent has to prepare for a second wave of COVID-19 infections, as the number of …

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42 African youth in China for cultural exchanges

By Eric Biegon A total of 34 African envoys and delegates to China were in attendance during the opening ceremony of the 5th China-Africa Youth Festival in Beijing, alongside representatives of African students studying in China, and Chinese youth representatives. The African Union permanent representative of to China Rahamtalla Mohamed …

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International cooperation only way to defeat COVID-19, climate emergency: UN chief

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that international cooperation is the only way to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency. “International cooperation is the only way to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency, rising inequality and the spreading of hatred,” the UN chief told an informal plenary …

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China, champion of global economic recovery

If ever the world needs a dose of recovery miracle, it is now; I think that recovery miracle has started to unfold in China, who knows how to turn crisis into opportunity.  The Chinese did it over four decades ago when the world doubted them. And now, they are doing …

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Chinese-built solar power stations help ‘light Africa’

As nearly one thousand photovoltaic (PV) panels sparkled in the sun and colorful flags fluttered in the breeze in the tawny Gobi desert, an off-grid PV power station project undertaken by a Chinese company in Somali region, Ethiopia, was officially completed and electrified recently. Thanks to the project, nearly 6,000 …

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