Akinwumi Adesina was officially sworn in as the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) for a second term in a virtual ceremony held at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Adesina was unanimously reelected as AfDB president on August 27, the final day of the 2020 Annual Meetings …
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Istanbul Airport has recently launched a full-scale “Chinese Friendly Airport” project. A series of measures are in place to make Chinese travelers feel at home when at the airport, according to airport officials. The China project will offer dedicated check-in islands for China flights, digital welcome activity on boarding bridges …
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China welcomes US companies to continue expanding their investment in the country and supports the strengthening of mutually beneficial cooperation by firms from both sides, a senior government official said. Ning Jizhe, vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the two sides can cooperate in a wide range …
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The narrative of a rising Africa will remain a pipedream as long as there is no industrialization and manufacturing. To this effect on Aug 18 to 19, the Africa Policy Institute (API)-Nairobi in partnership with the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Kenya co-hosted a …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday cautioned Kenya against relaxing measures aimed at containing the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO said in a statement issued in Nairobi that the decline in the number of total confirmed symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in the last three weeks is not an indication that there …
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In the first half of 2020, China-Europe freight trips rose 36 percent year-on-year to 5,122, transporting 3.67 million pieces and 27,000 tons of anti-pandemic materials to European countries, including Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland and Hungary. -With strict protective measures, overseas Chinese workers are joining hands with their local colleagues …
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Editor’s note: Joel Wendland-Liu is an associate professor of the integrative, religious and intercultural studies department at Grand Valley State University in the U.S. Trump’s promise to “sign a health care plan within two weeks” in an interview back in July, which he didn’t deliver, shows that health reform remains …
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At Africa-China review, today is our first anniversary marking one year since we started our publication. It is as exciting as conceiving a baby, you see the baby being born in a maternity ward and you see the baby grow step by step. Africa-China Review was born at the right …
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China and France should upgrade bilateral cooperation to set an example of positive interactions, mutual benefit, win-win outcomes and friendly relations among major countries, visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said last Saturday. Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and its severe impact on the world calls for solidarity, …
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President Xi Jinping has called for efforts to build a new modern socialist Tibet. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the comments at the two-day seventh Central Symposium on Tibet Work, which ended in Beijing …
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