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Published: July 26,2023 Gebeyehu Ganga, director general of the Asia and Pacific Directorate at the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks during the launch ceremony for a new book entitled “Africa-China Relations – Ethiopia as a Case Study” in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 15, 2023.  (Xinhua/Wang Ping) A new book …

Published : July 10,2023 By Gerald Mbanda Xi’an city. Photo credit: @Gerald Mbanda I had an opportunity to visit Xi’an city this summer and the experience was thrilling. The city is clean, green with wide roads. It is the capital of Shaanxi Province in central China once known as Chang’an …

Published: July 08,2023 Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwacommissioned a Chinese-built lithium processing plant at a mine in Goromonzi District, some 40 km east of the capital Harare. The plant at one of the world’s largest hard rock lithium resources, the Arcadia Lithium Mine, was constructed by the Chinese firm Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co., Ltd from May 2022 …

Published: July 07,2023 No Tanzania’s Zanzibar Minister of Trade and Industrial Development Omar Said Shaaban speaks at the 47th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on July 4, 2023. Tanzania’s leading trade fair on Tuesday celebrated China Day and launched a pavilion featuring more …

Published: June 11,2023 The Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya, a flagship project of China-Africa cooperation, has become a major “business card” of Chinese enterprises and a demonstrative work of the Belt and Road Initiative. The 480-km rail line, linking the largest port in East Africa, Mombasa, to Kenya’s capital …

Published:June 09,2023 By Staff writer In a panel discussion held in November 2022, titled “Is America Ready for a Multipolar World?“, hosted by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a think tank in Washington DC,  former French Ambassador to the UN  Gérard Araud, took a swipe at the U.S as …

Published: May 26,2023 By MINLU ZHANG in New York  Xie Feng (center), the new Chinese ambassador to the United States, waves to media upon his arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Tuesday. Liao Pan / For China Daily Xie Feng, the new Chinese ambassador to the United States, …

Published: May 23,2023 This photo taken on May 20, 2023 shows the diversion ceremony site of Caculo-Cabaca Hydropower Station in CuanzaNorte province, Angola. (Xinhua/Lyu Chengcheng) Angolan President Joao Lourenco has spoken highly of the socioeconomic contribution of the Chinese-built Caculo-Cabaca Hydropower Station, saying that the station would bring significant benefits in terms of energy supply …

Published: May 21,2023 By SUN ZHUANGZHI  President Xi Jinping chairs the first China-Central Asia Summit and delivers a keynote speech in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, on Friday. DING HAITAO/XINHUA The deliberations and decisions made at the China-Central Asia Summit, which concluded in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, on Friday, will promote closer cooperation …

Published: May 12,2023 Xi remarked that the transformation of the Xiong’an New Area from ground zero to an emerging sophisticated modern city within a mere six years is miraculous. *Xi said Xiong’an has entered a phase of advancing large-scale construction and at the same time taking on functions nonessential to …