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The 2025 China-Africa Automotive Development Forum was held Tuesday in Ghana to discuss opportunities for China-Africa cooperation in electric vehicle (EV) production. The forum, co-hosted by the Confucius Institute of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Hubei University of Automotive Technology, took place in Kumasi, the West …

By Alexander Ayertey Odonkor The fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo kicks off in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan Province, June 12, 2025. /CFP The fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE) is being held in Changsha, the capital city of Central China’s Hunan Province, from June 12 to 15. Themed “China and Africa: Together Toward Modernization,” this year’s expo …

This photo taken on March 25, 2024 shows a worker preparing to dive for the rehabilitation work at the Kainji Hydropower Plant in Niger State, Nigeria. (PowerChina Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited/Handout via Xinhua) Amid the hum of machinery and the focused bustle of engineers working on the rehabilitation of a …

By staff writer Shanghai customs staff members inspect imported South African avocadoes. Photo: Screenshot of the report from cnstock.com African foreign ministers met with their Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Changsa, the capital of Hunan province early this week, in a meeting under the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The …

A student performs in speech contest during the “Chinese Bridge” Chinese language competition for primary school students in Gaborone, Botswana on June 7, 2024. (Photo: Xinhua)  The “Chinese Bridge” Chinese language competition for primary school students was held in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana.The event, hosted by the Chinese Embassy …

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivers a video message to the the first-ever International Day of Dialogue Among Civilizations, June 10, 2025. /China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs China proposes to advance dialogue among civilizations through …

By Gerald Mbanda China still stands out as one of the countries in the world that had accelerated development in less than a generation. In 1949, China was ranked among the poorest countries in the world, after suffering decades of devastating Civil War. In 1960s, per capita income in China …

By Elia G. Kaiyamo Containers are being loaded onto a truck at Lekki Port in Lagos, Nigeria, on Nov 30, 2024. Lekki Port, a commercial cooperation project constructed by China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd, stands as Nigeria’s first deep seaport and one of the largest of its kind in West …

This photo taken with a mobile phone on June 3, 2025 shows Chinese agricultural experts conducting rice cultivation training in the central Bafata region of Guinea-Bissau. /Handout via Xinhua) The 12th Chinese Agricultural Technical Assistance Mission in Guinea-Bissau has conducted a high-yield rice cultivation training course in the central Bafata …

By Xinhua writers Hua Hongli, Lucas Liganga In the rice fields of Tanzania’s Morogoro Region, where green and gold stalks intertwine as harvest season approaches, farmers are gearing up with a renewed sense of confidence and readiness. The air hums not with the clang of sickles, but with the low, …