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Shanghai embarks on road to recovery following lockdown

Published:June02,2022 By Zhou Wenting, Cao Chen and Ma Chi Cross-river transportation resumed since Wednesday in Shanghai. [Photo by Gao Erqiang / chinadaily.com.cn] Life returned to the streets of Shanghai on Wednesday as the city lifted most epidemic control measures in low-risk communities and allowed many businesses to resume operations. People …

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How Botswana can benefit from China global development

Published:June02,2022 Xi Jinping The China Global Development Initiative (GDI) is a brainchild of the president of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Xi Jinping, which he proposed in 2021 when delivering a speech at the General Debate of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly. This proposal is …

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President Xi Jinping hails all-weather friendship between China, Zambia 

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday held a phone conversation with his Zambian counterpart, HakaindeHichilema. President Xi hailed the all-weather friendship between China and Zambia, stressing bilateral friendship is unbreakable. Over the past year, China-Zambia relations have maintained a positive momentum of development, with bilateral trade volume reaching a record high, …

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China’s State Council appoints John Lee as HKSAR chief executive

Published: May31,2022 Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signs a State Council decree on the appointment of John Lee as the sixth-term chief executive of the HKSAR, in Beijing, May 20, 2022. /Xinhua) China’s State Council decided at a meeting on Friday to appoint John Lee as the sixth-term chief executive of the Hong …

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Africa’s 2021 economic rebound impacted by lingering COVID-19, Russia-Ukraine crisis

Published:May 29,2022 By Halligan Agade FILE PIC: African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina. Africa’s GDP has recovered strongly in the last year, but the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict could pose considerable challenges in the midterm. This is according to the 2022 African Economic Outlook, …

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Southern Africa looks to strengthen China bonds

Published:May29, 2022 By NDUMISO MLILO   Photo taken on Nov 22, 2021 shows facilities of the De Aar wind power project invested by China’s Longyuan Power and its South African partners in De Aar, South Africa. [Photo/Xinhua] Countries in southern Africa are keen to step up cooperation with China to spur industrialization …

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China, Tanzania sign new implementation program for cultural agreement

Published:May29,2022 Chinese Ambassador to Tanzania Chen Mingjian (2nd R) and Tanzanian Minister for Culture, Arts and Sports Mohamed Mchengerwa (3rd L) sign a new implementation program for a cultural agreement in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on May 26, 2022. (Photo by Herman Emmanuel/Xinhua) The governments of China and Tanzania on Thursday signed a new implementation program …

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Chinese-built SGR provides career development opportunities to Kenyan women locomotive drivers

Published: May28,2022 While growing up in a farming village in north-western Kenya, Tabitha Kiplimo had to defy entrenched gender stereotypes to prove that career success was not a preserve of her male peers.The 30-year-old electrical engineering major was recruited by the contractor of the 480-km Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) soon after …

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AU chairperson says Africa a ‘collateral victim’ of Ukraine war

Published:May 28,2022 African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamatholds a joint news conference after an international conference on the Sahel in Brussels, Belgium on February 23, 2018 [Eric Vidal/Reuters] Africa has become a “collateral victim” of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, further denting the continent’s ability to fulfil its “enormous promise and potential”, top officials of the …

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